Jim,

I can understand short floats when they are dual floats, but I'm not sure about a single float. Every single float plane I have seen, full scale or RC has had the float a good bit out in front of the prop. That's why I asked if anyone had experience flying a single float plane. You don't see many of them other than flying boats and that's not really the same.

The retracts for the Heckler, retract float experiment, are due in on the 7th. Flaps already has the geometry drawn out and the rails for mounting the retracts installed. We are going to hold off on retracting the tip floats until we get the main float working. If this kulge flies OK, we'll probably design a whole new plane with main and tips retracting.