show871

Found my plane! What would be the best floats for the goldberg skylane, It might do simple aerobatics if I over power it.........

Valleyviewrc.com has these sweet looking fiberglass floats, would they be a good choice?????

JimCasey

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Those would probably be good. They are made in China and the mfr promoted them here pretty aggressively when they first were introduced. They got good reviews.
Still I like foam-core floats. Since they are not hollow they can't get water inside.

I listed a lot of foam-float providers on my website.
Other useful stuff to know there, too.
Good luck with it.

scale only 4 me

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A little on the short side, but like Jim said, they should work
Those would have been really good on that pc9

Along those lines, I thought you wanted a more aerobatic ship?
A High wing, flat bottom airfoil, trainer, Cessna look alike isn't going be to doing great Imac moves
Actually going inverted might be down right scary


Choose wisely grasshopper

show871

I really wanted aerobatics yes, but I guess I compromised to have a no hassle high winger. My PC9 just would have been to heavy with the floats as someone pointed out. It is already boarderline. and the motor is inverted which may be a pain on the water also. So this plane has a fairly straight wing, and comes in 2 lbs lighter than the pc9. The sportsman imac is pretty simple, I hope it can pull it off with this plane!

And I think this plane with the right floats will have a "ballpark" realistic appearance

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JimCasey

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I have always felt that floats HELP inverted performance with a flat-bottom airfoil. I even got so I could fly a LazyBee inverted pretty well with floats. For those who have not flown a LzB, 3 channels, high polyhedral wing, and they DON'T like to be upside down.

jrf

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No hassle? You are going to need water rudders on that one and those are probably the biggest hassle for any float plane.

Ah, but I see. It has to look scale. OK, good luck and have fun!

Jim