cf-drg

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List your 3 favorite Sea-float planes...If you got a picture, post it.....Prizes will be awarded... No just kidding.. I'll post mine later when I get better pics....

canadagoose

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These are my only 2 seaplanes at the moment will be adding a third soon. Ones a plans built RCM flybaby powered by a Saito 80, the other is a Lanier Stinger 60 powered by an ASP 91 2 stroke. Both are excellent flyers but the stinger needs to takeoff and land fairly hot with the floats on, really fun to fly though!

MinnFlyer

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Seamaster
Mariner 40
Cub on floats

Smoky

1)SIG Kadet Seniorita on floats Os .25 engine. (waiting in hangar for repairs).
2)Unionville 8ft Turbo Beaver 1/6 th scale, Saito Golden Knight .91 on Seaplane floats.
3) I thought about putting the PT 17 Stearman, Bipe on floats, but havn't done it yet.

Smoky.

racer-RCU

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only have one but have flown others, i have the sig rascal 40 arf on foats and is the best sport flying float plane there is

evan-RCU

Billy, you're not a little biased about your Rascal are you?

My favorite is a 105" Quaker, all scratch on scratch floats.

Second would be the Northstars.

Third is a scratch delta I made up based on Jerry L. Smith's Outlaw.

Goinstraightup

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Hangar Designs Sea CruiserII.

I've also flown my Kadet MKII on home made floats and my plans built Cloud Dancer 60 on Goldberg Superfloats. These all flew great.

JimCasey

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Senior Telemaster on 45" Floats, powered by a .90 4-stroke.

Hanger Designs SeaCruiser II, .40-size

Lanier Mariner. 40, but this is almost a tie with the Ace SeaMaster

evan-RCU

Jim, where is Cookville? Where do you fly? Map? The Senior Telemaster sounds like it would be a lot of fun for those lazy evenings....

JimCasey

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Evan,
Cookeville is halfway between Knoxville and Nashville on I-40. My wife suggests that this may also be the exact coordinates for "middle of Nowhere"

However, I find it charming. Pop 24000, home of Tennessee Technological University. Very "Mayberry-esqe". Or, as Frank Zappa once said:
" A Real nice place to raise your kids up in".

racer-RCU

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even soon i won't be biased about just my rascal but my moth too, i'm putting my gp tiger moth on the new gp arf floats, almost done wit them too

evan-RCU

Cool Billy, you know that they are flying at Smith lake saturday? I'm going down to a flyin in Florida so I won't be there though.

Jim do you ever have organized float flys?

Evan

JimCasey

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Jim do you ever have organized float flys?

Yes, I will post whenever I hear of one. I know the club in Knoxville does float flys about twice a year.

If you go to FL, check in with the Florida FLoat Flyers. Floatplanes ONLY. They fly almost exclusively on Saturday mornings. Then they adjourn for brunch. Pond is an Hour west of Disney world, 20 miles east of Tampa. Let me know if you need contact or direction info.

evan-RCU

Thanks Jim, I did go to the last Knoxville float fly, had a blast.... Tampa is too far to go this trip and I won't have room in the truck, I have two planes in it ready to go in the morning and one is a 16 footer.....

racer-RCU

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even i'm not going to the float fly either, i have a lesson in a 172 in the morning and from 2-5 i have these two "girl" friends coming over to do homework for photography and history, i got the floats mounted just have to rebalance now, it has a wierd attitude to it though, when the floats r level the airplane is at a nose down attitude, is this normal?ok? they were set up exactly as described as in the instructions

bigguyplanes

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Here are my 3 favorite, A 12ft Beaver, G-62, 48lbs, A 1/4 scale Kingfisher ,Brison 2.4 and a 1/4 Cub ,G23, which I fly all winter off snow on floats....Allen ( see Gallery)

JimCasey

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Racer: When the floats are level, the plane should have a nose UP attitude. Specifically, the WING
should be at positive 2-5 degrees incidence. If the plane is nose-down with the floats level, you will
find that it makes a pretty good speedboat, but it will be difficult to get it airborne. The GP cub has
been pictured with the floats rigged wrong in the Tower catalog ever since it came out.



This is a photo of a 1:1 scale cub from Jack Brown's Seaplane Base where you can clearly see that
with the floats level, the wing has significant positive incidence

racer-RCU

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thanks a lot[&:]

Ed_Moorman

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I only own 1 at the moment, but fly 2. My buddy, Flaps Laffert, is 82 and he only builds now so I get to fly twice as many. I build the ARFs and a few kits. And, even though many of you know me as an acro guy, Flaps and I are building a fleet of seaplanes. Between the 2 of us, we'll have 6 or more by summer. Lots of fun.

FLYING:
1. Sea Fazer-Sig Fazer on Falcon Trading Co floats, Tower .46
2. Scratch L-19 Bird Dog on original floats, OS .15

IN-WORK:
3. Sea Monster, Saito .72, Nearly ready to test fly
4. Macchi MC72 Schneider Cup racer, original design, scratch built, Falcon floats, Magnum .52, nearly ready to test fly
5. Kangke SK/50-OS .61SF, flying on wheels, Falcon Floats on order, have extra landing gear for rear struts already
6. Beast, have kit in house, using OS .91FX
7. Bellanca A-200 Airbus, flying on wheels, plan to convert to floats, Thunder Tiger .61
8. Grumman F4FS Wild Catfish, have plans for F4F, Flaps has time in them in WW II, he'll build the float version, OS .61SF

canadagoose

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Ed , How about posting some pics of the Macchi Schnieder Cup racer and give some details about it, eg. size, weight, span, wing area. I would like to see it and also compare specs to the plane i'm currently building. I will be powering mine with a Magnum 52 (four stroke). I hope you will give us a full test fight report.

Terry

racer-RCU

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finally finished the moth
thanks jim
and here is the rascal