What is this plane?
03-26-2016, 10:35 AM
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It isn't an Ace Seamaster. The Seamaster has a 60 inch span and a T tail. It also has an engine pod on a wood stalk above the wing. I agree with whomever said it looks like a float that somebody put tail feathers on and slapped a wing on top. No reason it shouldn't fly, though.
03-26-2016, 01:33 PM
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It isn't an Ace Seamaster. The Seamaster has a 60 inch span and a T tail. It also has an engine pod on a wood stalk above the wing. I agree with whomever said it looks like a float that somebody put tail feathers on and slapped a wing on top. No reason it shouldn't fly, though.
03-27-2016, 02:13 AM
#28
I have flown off water before but it's not my first choice, even for this thing. In all likelihood it will be snow, or just hand tossing in the air and landing on grass. As for the additional weight via glassing, I only needed a strip of about 2.5 inches over a 12 inch area. I'm going to guess this will come in around 3-4 pounds all up. 480 or power 10, i'll there soon enough.
I like simple, believe me. On those few planes that I couldn't find written documentation of the CG 1/3 of the cord has typically worked pretty well. I'm guessing that will be my starting point here, I'm just confused for a few reasons. The motor and battery (at least a 3 cell) will be in front of the wing. It's a nice fat chuncky flat bottom wing, with a good about of dihedral. Does the dihedral affect the CG to any degree. Also, is there any type of formula that says a wing has to be a certain length/width as compared to the length of the fuselage?
Thanks for the continued advice here.
I like simple, believe me. On those few planes that I couldn't find written documentation of the CG 1/3 of the cord has typically worked pretty well. I'm guessing that will be my starting point here, I'm just confused for a few reasons. The motor and battery (at least a 3 cell) will be in front of the wing. It's a nice fat chuncky flat bottom wing, with a good about of dihedral. Does the dihedral affect the CG to any degree. Also, is there any type of formula that says a wing has to be a certain length/width as compared to the length of the fuselage?
Thanks for the continued advice here.
No, Dihedral doesn't affect anything but the roll axis it adds stability to. The effect is to self correct the roll axis,, Typically wings with no aileron control will have allot of dihedral, planes with ailerons can have flat wings
Formula?? just common sense I guess, that plane does look a little short coupled,, but it should work,, expect the elevator and rudder control to be a little touchy,
good luck
03-28-2016, 03:47 PM
#29
Continued with some sanding, glassed down the small part of the bottom front of the plane, hitting the wings tonight with primer/sealer. I don't like the aluminum pod the guy had rigged up so I'll have to come up with something else for that. I have a Power 10 from another plane, as well as a 480 equiv, I guess the final weight will play in factor in what I use. 40 amp esc either way, it's what I have laying around.
