The first flight was a knee knocker, she shot off the water like a scalded goose and climbed like a rocket.
I pushed down elevator and called for down trim (my thumbs were full) and my friend Mike started feeding in down trim on my 8103 till there was none left, I throttled back to half (from 3/4) and had level flight but still had to hold a little forward stick. I cruised around for a while, any increase in throttle would produce a clime but I still had fun, sounded great like all twins do.
Throttled back for landing and greases it, very pretty, the Lainer wing floats work and look good and I taxied back, right engine died and beached her on one engine.
I mounted the T.T.36 engines with 0 degrees not knowing what it needed so the fix was to install washers on the top engine mount screws between the mount and firewall to get 3 degrees of down thrust and that fixed it. The next flight was from pavement here in Nevada and all went well in spite of the fact the elevation here is 4,750 feet.
The plane rides a little low in the water due to the extra weight but gets up on step with ease.
It takes only ten minuets to install the engine pod with the OS 50 FX and the stock wing and NO... I'm not going to try flying in on three engines, at least not until I get real bored.
Thanks Karl.
Chuck