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skater 719
The Short Solent has 4 engines, not 2. I've seen video of the plane flying easily on 4 speed 480's.

Seaplane

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Oh, must have misread, Awesome looking plane btw

RE: Unique single engine flying boat
 

A little late with this, but I always have thought about doing a Shavrov Sh2 flying boat. It is a smaller Soviet amphibian from between the wars. It was also used in Finland, and there were ambulance versions with different color schemes too. Looks like it would be fairly simple to build. I would have to make mine electric, though, as I fly at sunrise in front of a bunch of million dollar homes!

Good luck,
Dave

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skater i am using 4 motors on my solent with gear boxes swinging 9x6 four bladed props battery will be 2- 3cell 2600 packs tied together and only one esc. two batterys for weight in the nose. Glad you tried the balsa site i gave you they are good to me. Good luck with your build ,post a build thred so we can watch while i am trying to get glue off my fingers lol . I have been busy flying my other sea planes at some water fun flys ,so havent been keeping track of any thing. Ps it is not a thing ,lol it is a 1935 short solent 60 passender sea plane . lmao joe

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How about a Galludet or a Piaggio pc7?

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Oui Oui Jock ! This is the very famous half airplane half submarine known as Z Flounder.

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One has to many wings and struts plus all the guide wires and the other would be real hard to keep the receiver dry. lol joe

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OKAm I seeing things or what , it looks like the engine and propeller are in the middle of the fusalage. I have never seen a submarine do this before.