Gungadin

I'm looking for a 30" span or so electric flying boat type laser kit I can fly in my back yard. Anyone know of such a kit ?

jrf

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Do a search for Chea-pass. It looks like it might fit your requirements.

Jim

ADSala

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Try Hobby-lobby.com. They have an Aventura II twin electric arf.

Dean

bipeaddict

Try http://www.kamodels.com/. They have a 50" wingspan Grumman G-73.

Wayne22

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Most impressive one I have seen was the Donald ...can't remember who sells it though...

There is always the old standby Puddlemaster...

r/cdawg

Take a look at the Splash-E from BMJR Models. [link]http://www.airfieldmodels.com/gallery_of_models/rc/bmjr_models_splash-e/index.htm[/link]. Looks like a nice relaxing flier.
dawg

Gungadin

Yea-thanks guys. The Herr Aqua Star is another, but I'm trying to keep the size down to around 36" span due to the rather confinded area it will be flown in. Smaller works better in a confined area. That Splash-e looks cool, but to big.

JimCasey

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The splash-E is a parkflyer and can be kept in close. The Aquastar flies pretty fast if you can get it airborne, so it will need more sky.
Hobby Lobby offers the Aventura, but I don't think they offer the Donald any more. The Donald got a lot of criticism in this forum for being a bit frail in its motor mounting structure, but I have never actually placed eyes on one, so take that with a grain-of -salt.

Everyone who has actually built and reported on the House-of Balsa Chea-Pass 10 seaplane has made positive remarks, and I remain convinced that they would have sold a lot more of them if it didn't have such a stupid name.

Some of the electric park fliers on GWS floats are really a good choice. The GWS floats are so inexpensive you can pay for them just by not supersizing at lunch for a week, and if you put them on something like a Funtana you have a good, close-in funfly seaplane. The GWS floats apparently are a little fussy with how accurately you need to trim and seal them, but have great water manners when assembled so they stay dry inside.

lupy

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I have a Donald, when built as recomended, it's a heavy plane, but it does fly. I put a axi 2212/26 on mine with a 3s 2000mah li poly pack and a 10/4.7 apc. the Motor mount has been reworked too. With a little washout in the wing tips, it takes off much easier than my aquastar ever did, and will fly slower, and turn tighter too boot. I am also carying about 6-7oz ov camera gear in mine, so without that, it would be a real floater. If i was building for sport flying, I would probably pick the axi 2808/26 with a 9/7 but I had the 2212/26 laying around.

It's a bit bigger than you want, but a lot of those smaller seaplanes have relitivly high wing loading, and so take up more room than a bigger plane that is light. Esprit models still carries it.

Take a look at the video I shot from it.

http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/m_3921875/tm.htm

Ken

theKM

Twinkle?

24" wingspan
With the lighter setups, it can take off a very small pond.
I'm biased, but methinks it rocketh.

Gungadin

Twinkle looks interesting. I'd like to know more about it. What can you tell me ?

old git

I bought an Aqua Star kit, the cutting etc looked really good. Before I built it I saw a series on building the kit in RCU. Despite numerous modifications the builder could not get a decent take off from water. The kit went back into store to wait until I became desperate.






old git

lupy

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The aquastar flies fine once it's in the air, but the planing area is too small to get up easily, some up thrust on the motor might help. Mine also had a real hard time rotating to take off once on plane. I remember skittering at full throttle back and forth many times, not being able to break it lose. A little chop really helped it get off. It's also of course really important to build light.

Ken

cyclops2

Breaking loose can be a loosing proposition IF your step is not cut deep enough.
I had the same problems with "sticky" surfaces.
I increased the step on the 6' China Clipper from 3/8" to 3/4".
POOF!!! If I max out on the Glass, level the elevator, and give a fast up elevator she " jumps" up cleanly.
Fast level rudder to build speed and up we go.

I am not totally sure why it always works on Glass.