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Old 12-12-2003 | 06:49 PM
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Default RE: help with floats

If you have never built a set, get great planes 40 size floats. They are built up and you will learn a lot building the. There are also companies making glass floats, but they cost more and I have seen a lot of people blow them up. I didn't like the way they were built.

Mine on my stik 60 are very small, and veryshort, and they really need to be bigger for that particular plane, but it is the most stable float plane I have ever flown. The floats ride almost all the way in the water, which is bad, but hey, it works.

Mine are made of foam and glassed, it works well, but if you haven't done foam cutting and glassing, it would be a huge pain for you. Goldberg also has a set for the cub, they would work but are fairly big. I think too big for your plane, but maybe not. They sit very high in the water and are a great float.

I have seen some scratch design floats too that I would have never guessed possible, but they flew great off choppy water and smooth.

Check out the floats at tower. They are pretty good.