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The closeup was taken during a boat tour on Lake Rosseau, Saturday. We were cruising around 30mph with the Cub parked 10 feet out. Any closer and the airflow around the boat becomes hard to handle. The formation flying is from the dock, lead plane is a Goldberg. The trailer is mine; scratch built from coroplast, 110" span, OS 91FS, 16 lbs, third season on floats.

beau0090_99

Here is a picture of my Sealane with my little boy Laurence. I have no flying pictures yet, but maybe this weekend.
All the best,
Curtis

goirish

Boy!!! what a good looker. The baby looks good also.

Ed_Moorman

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Sea Stinger: Stinger 40 ARF on tail dragger floats

Power: Saito .72

Radio: JR 9303

Floats: Made from a set of conventional foam floats. Main floats are 17" long cut from the front part of the float. Tail float is 8" long and was cut from the rear of the conventional float. Tail float attached to rudder with 4 popsicle sticks.

Excellent water handling. Very nice on take off and landing.

Strykaas

Nice. Must make up for a lighter setup as well !

Goinstraightup

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Very nice Ed!!

Barry Down Under

Hi All,
My little ESM Cessna 150 2140mm Span, Zeonah 20. Havent flown it off water yet, (drought, there is no water here) cant wait.....

bpbat21

Hey Fellas,

There are a lot of very nice pictures of spectacular airplanes...I have always wanted to fly off the water. I did it for the first time last week with a trainer. It was a quick and sloppy mod, and the plane flew OK. (I took off and landed and was able to use the plane again). I have a Cub on the way...I hope it flys better. My questions is this. Have you guys used rc boats to retrieve your stranded planes? I was thinking of just dragging a tennis ball behind it, or maybe some sort of bent hook glued to the rear of it. The lake or I guess big pond I use is in the middle of nowhere and I only have a litte honda civic (cant tow a boat) and its getting to cold to swim. Just looking for suggestions.

rslstft

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Bpbat21-

The club I belong to flies at a pond leased from the water district and we are not allowed to use manned boats or swim (never a good idea by youself anyway) in the water. Actually, they don't allow R/C boats either, but we are allowed to use a R/C "rescue boat". One of the club members built it several years ago and it is a fairly large tug boat with a 12v motor and motorcycle battery in it. It has a moveable boom on it with a strong line with a floating ball on the end with a sort of grappling hook. It actually works very well, circling around the plane and can usually hook onto some part of the floats (assuming the plane is still sitting on them!) or some other part of the floating debris. It has dragged back some pretty large aircraft that are barely floating.
Don't bother with the boats that are ready to run as they aren't large or powerful enough, tried those, wouldn't work at all.

Russ

beau0090_99

bpbat21,
I use a canoe with a small trolling motor, but I also have a pickup truck to put it on top of. I also have a kayak and have seen them used successfully to retrieve airplanes at float flys. I think that it might be rather difficult to capture the airplane with an RC boat, especially if you have an incident far away from shore.
Good luck,
Curtis

bpbat21

Thanks for your quick responses. I ll rig something up...I would rather have a boat, but a canoe on top of the "ole" civic would be comical...I hope to have some pictures to post so that I have not completly hyjacked the thread.

Adour Mk951

Barry Down Under:

What a nice looking Cessna 150! I'm really wanting to know more about those floats of yours. I noticed the wheels at the tips and behind the step and I am wondering if those are retractable. If they are not, do you have to remove them before water operations? They appear very similar in design to what would be on a full scale aircraft such as the Air Tractor AT-802 Fire Boss.

Regards,

John

Barry Down Under

John
Thank you. flew it at a public display last weekend with good reception. The floats are built up balsa and ply formers with ply bottoms. I have some floats constructed the same on CAD if you want a copy (they are a different size but can be modified easily). The wheels are removable, I thought about making retracts but on looking at the strength required decided retracts would be an engineering nightmare at that scale. I have not flown it off water yet as there is nothing big enough within 200klms. The front wheel is based on some on a Cessna C-165 I have seen photos of, but there is plenty of them around (eBay motors is a great place for photos). They have been through a few changes as they bend very easily and I have snapped them off too. I will get some close ups for you (still packed in the trailer).
Barry

LADDIE

This SEAWIND is my newest model. I decided to build it out of balsa. My model has 70� wingspan. The wings plug in. The landing gear is removable. The model is powered by AXI 4120/18 with 6S- 6000mA Thunder Power batteries and Castle Creation speed controller. The flying weight is exactly 7 lbs. The water handling is excellent. The takeoff from the water is smooth. The model lifts off in approximately 100 ft. There is no tendency for the wingtips to dig in at all. Same goes for the landings. The takeoff from the runway is straight forward. Only strange thing is that it takes 150 to 200 ft. to lift off. In the air the model handles well. Only thing I have to watch is when doing loops. The elevator is powerful, able to make tight loop. On top of the loop, the model will snap. My theory is that the wing is in high speed stall or the turbulence coming off the wing is blanketing the stabilizer. To overcome this, I just do the larger loops. Other vice, I am satisfied with the model.
I have the pictures from flying from the water. There are of poor quality. My camera was acting up. When flying from the runway, the battery in camera quit.
Laddie.

Adour Mk951

Barry,

Thank you, I'd love to have a copy of your CAD drawing! The close up pictures, when you get a chance, would be great also. The reason I am so interested is that I'm currently scratch building a 1/7 scale AT-502 Air Tractor from Hollis Calvert plans (TeamDuster.com) and the idea of putting this plane on floats has crossed my mind numerous times.

Hopefully you'll get that first flight on water soon. I just had my first flight from water last weekend with a Sig LT-40 on Sig floats and I'm hooked. I can't believe I've waited this long to give it a try.

Regards,

John

marecisko

Hello,

one of my friend build very nice seaplane Ha 139.
It is german airplane.
Here is some information [link=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blohm_und_Voss_Ha_139]wiki[/link]
and here is my video about it [link=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSAbwgGGWts]Ha 139[/link]

Marek

wildbills21

Just a bit too much wind. Even for a 1/3 scale

cf-drg

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Here's an old timer.. I mean in a scale sense... 1/6 scale 120"WS..

siddus74

Dont have many thing newly completed but a couple on the build . . . Just got Decembers edition of AMI and they have featured one of our water plane meetings! 3 of my models are in it! - Does wonders for the motivation.

Below are a couple of links to the pdf articles > >

[link=http://www.leenvalleymodelflyingclub.co.uk/AMI1.pdf]http://www.leenvalleymodelflyingclub.co.uk/AMI1.pdf[/link]
[link=http://www.leenvalleymodelflyingclub.co.uk/AMI2.pdf]http://www.leenvalleymodelflyingclub.co.uk/AMI2.pdf[/link]

Also here are some of the pictures that never made it in! May help some of the builders with motivation! (Wish I had a Canon EOS D600)

siddus74

Also here is my prize Catalina PBY2, 4.7lbs 2 x os.10's, flew it the weekend - love it must have acrued near on 20 flights now . . .

Ed_Moorman

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Get some pictures of my Sea Stinger/Saito .72 with tail dragger floats on the water and in the air.

hILLVILLE

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Mr. Moorman,
Thank you for your column. I learned to flatspin just by reading what you wrote. I had been flying a profile for years and couldn't do much. Someone gave me back issues of RCReport and I saw your column. I memorized the gimble positions and I was able to flatspin on the second try. Thanks for including the fact that one can become memorized with the spin and flat spin it into the ground. I received MOST IMPROVED PILOT that year for learning how to spin both inverted and upright. I'm still new to it, but I can do it every time and I love the thrill of the recovery. Thank you from all the guys like me, you made my Sundays even better. Thank you very much.

teryn1

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Here are some picts of my Supercub at Patagonia Lake State Park in Southern Arizona this past weekend (Nov 2).
http://www.terynd.com/supercub.html

Ed_Moorman

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Outstanding Super Cub. The floats look great painted to match the plane.

Ed

wildbills21

Here are a couple of pictures of my 1/4 scale Balsa USA cub with the scale EDO floats and my Northstar