Giant Scale Seaplane Selection
03-17-2003 | 04:26 PM
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Giant Scale Seaplane Selection
I held off responding hoping that someone who actually OWNS some of these planes would respond.
The Seamaster 120 is a big, heavy brute, and the only one I ever saw fly had a lot of adverse yaw, and my flying buddy Bob did not feel the urge to rebuild it after he crunched it. When I last checked, it was not being offered, just the 40Arf.
The H9 Cub is a gloriously wonderful airplane, and I have never heard anything bad said about it. Set up your floats to be interchangeable with wheels, and you will be able to fly all the time.
Don't have any experience with the clipped-wing t-craft, but I expect if it follows its fu--scale brother, it will be more aerobatic than the cub.
Just keep the float installation light, and you should be fine with the Cub or TC.
A lot of the fun with float flying is trying to do the ultimate touch and go. I've been float-flying for about 7 years, and I haven't hit a dead solid perfect landing but about 3 times. The water does not lie. The cub is great for shooting T&Gs.
The Seamaster 120 is a big, heavy brute, and the only one I ever saw fly had a lot of adverse yaw, and my flying buddy Bob did not feel the urge to rebuild it after he crunched it. When I last checked, it was not being offered, just the 40Arf.
The H9 Cub is a gloriously wonderful airplane, and I have never heard anything bad said about it. Set up your floats to be interchangeable with wheels, and you will be able to fly all the time.
Don't have any experience with the clipped-wing t-craft, but I expect if it follows its fu--scale brother, it will be more aerobatic than the cub.
Just keep the float installation light, and you should be fine with the Cub or TC.
A lot of the fun with float flying is trying to do the ultimate touch and go. I've been float-flying for about 7 years, and I haven't hit a dead solid perfect landing but about 3 times. The water does not lie. The cub is great for shooting T&Gs.
