Floating Cub Maiden
07-05-2004 | 12:23 PM
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From: West Monroe,
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Floating Cub Maiden
Well, it finally flew, with floats that is. I came on here to get some advice about what to expect for the first float attempt, and all of the advice helped out.
Just a quick update of what I'm flying. Great Planes fabric covered .40 ARF. Great Planes fiberglass ARF floats. Saito .72. I was running a Magnum .61 four stroke earlier, but decided that the engine may not be enough. Now that I have flown it with a .72, the .61 may have just been enough, but it would have been a struggle.
First off, the floats appear to be a perfect match for this plane. When the plane is in the water, there is a good bit of float that is above water, front and back. I thought that they would have sat lower in the water. On my first attempt, the prop was catching a lot of the water spray. I don't know if it was spray from the floats or spray from the blast of the prop. It was no big deal, but I could see where a wooden prop would have probably come to pieces. Lift off was achieved fairly quickly. The floats definately add a good bit of weight to this plane. The Saito .72 is enough power, but more could definately be used. Like I stated earlier, the Magnum .61 would have flown it, but it would have been struggling. I tried several times to pull a loop. The first few times were failures. After several more attempts, the loop was completed. Landings were easier than I had anticipated. I got a bounce here and there, but nothing uncontrolable.
Overall, it was a great day of float flying. A lot of my family was there. We had about four or five bass boats tied together out in the middle of the lake. Float flying was as new to them as it was to me. A few had seen me fly my other planes before, but others had never seen a R/C plane fly, ever. So, it was a treat for them, as well as myself.
Now, I just need to get some other fellow modelers to get some floats. Right now, I'm the only that I know of that even has floats.
John Kennedy
West Monroe, La.
Just a quick update of what I'm flying. Great Planes fabric covered .40 ARF. Great Planes fiberglass ARF floats. Saito .72. I was running a Magnum .61 four stroke earlier, but decided that the engine may not be enough. Now that I have flown it with a .72, the .61 may have just been enough, but it would have been a struggle.
First off, the floats appear to be a perfect match for this plane. When the plane is in the water, there is a good bit of float that is above water, front and back. I thought that they would have sat lower in the water. On my first attempt, the prop was catching a lot of the water spray. I don't know if it was spray from the floats or spray from the blast of the prop. It was no big deal, but I could see where a wooden prop would have probably come to pieces. Lift off was achieved fairly quickly. The floats definately add a good bit of weight to this plane. The Saito .72 is enough power, but more could definately be used. Like I stated earlier, the Magnum .61 would have flown it, but it would have been struggling. I tried several times to pull a loop. The first few times were failures. After several more attempts, the loop was completed. Landings were easier than I had anticipated. I got a bounce here and there, but nothing uncontrolable.
Overall, it was a great day of float flying. A lot of my family was there. We had about four or five bass boats tied together out in the middle of the lake. Float flying was as new to them as it was to me. A few had seen me fly my other planes before, but others had never seen a R/C plane fly, ever. So, it was a treat for them, as well as myself.
Now, I just need to get some other fellow modelers to get some floats. Right now, I'm the only that I know of that even has floats.
John Kennedy
West Monroe, La.
