Mariner
 

OK GUYS!,
Here it is.
The Mariner flies! It is well made with a lot of detail built in. I just finished the test flight, and it went without a hitch! Handling was superb! Take-offs and landings were excellent. It takes off like a real plane. Up on step in a short distance. Landing is the same. Just fly it level and power down. It will sink smoothly. I have an OS .46 LA with a 10/7 3 blade prop on it. approx 10,450 rpm.
I would highly recommend this plane to everyone! For extra pics,
email me and I will send them. Mine is dressed in USCG colors and decals.

Mariner
 

Nice looking plane! Congrats! :thumbup:

AL

Mariner
 

I second the "thumbs-up". On of the clubmembers here has one, and it flies like an ugly stick. No bad habits, inverted flight is about the same as upright, with only a smigde of forward pressure on the stick. Fly it really slow and it does not drop a wingtip. And it has a v-bottom hull so it tracks nicely and is much less likely to skip on landing.

Just a really sweet model.

Does anybody know the rationale for the little widgets that glue to the bottom in front of the step?

Mariner
 

Can't wait to get mine in the air, 4 of us got one at the WRAM show, JimCasey the little widgets are to break the vacume created at the step, Kind of like when you drive behind a semi truck, The vacume just pulls you along and the step will hold it in the water but with the widgets it helps break up the vacume created.

Dauntae