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01-16-2021 06:45 AM

OLD PRAIRIE RED NECK

Re: Amphibious Floats

My Seniorita flies just fine off grass with the floats on.

08-24-2020 09:38 AM

stegl

Re: Amphibious Floats

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Originally Posted by Efliteman785

Flown my eflite cessna 150 off the water probably 50 times this year and every one as been good so far just dont let the plane bounce on landing or land hard keep the nose up all the time when taxiing if u let it dip on taxi water is sucked up by the props. Also the floats do end up filling with water but not enough to stop a takeoff or from sinking just happens except for the timber floats dont fill as there is no space for water like there is in ones that have a servo mounted in the float

Have never had built up floats fill with water if built and covered properly . Except once with my Nosen 1/4 scale Citabria ; when another flyer coming up from below me had his prop cut a small hole in the bottom and then went through my prop and disintegrated ! Landed , removed the float , shook out the water , dried it with a warm air blower , repaired it and was out on the water the next day. Always did the cable and pulley water rudder setup for better scale appeal.

08-24-2020 05:59 AM

Cougar429

Re: Amphibious Floats

Flat bottoms tend to bounce a lot if not pretty tame on approach and landing. If did more water work would look at adding a V hull to the Seamaster. As it stands latest effort is converting it to Saito 4-stroke with an upgrade to a LiFE flight pack.

08-23-2020 10:14 PM

Efliteman785

02-28-2020 12:01 AM

Pauld

Re: Amphibious Floats

Here’s a link to a thread for a Beaver build with amphibious, retractable gear. The plane was sold before the build was completed so not sure how it turned out but pretty cool idea.

I love the idea but don’t know of any flying sites in this area that have a hard enough surface that a plane could taxi up with the small wheels our models have.

https://www.rccanada.ca/rccforum/sho...=Beaver&page=2

PaulD

01-16-2020 09:13 AM

Cougar429

Re: Amphibious Floats

Yep. Nice engineering. My friend had one on the front of a Pilatus.

Although still love the bark and snort of a big radial, worked and flew behind/under enough of these to appreciate their power/weight.

01-15-2020 12:45 PM

stegl

Re: Amphibious Floats

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Originally Posted by Cougar429

Beautiful bird. If I had a site like that to fly think would leave it on floats.

Love the Twotter. Full size is one of my faves and one day like to do a scale.

And with a pair of these on it....PERFECT ! might have to mortgage the house though....LOL
I have seen and had the X45 turbine in hand ( but not the gearbox) and it's about the size of the large beer cans in length overall. The turbine body is on the right with a 330ml pop can for comparison. 10 pounds of thrust equate to be able to turn 22 to 24 inch props in the TP version . Prop in the picture is cut way down for portability.

Start time from sitting to full idle ,about 25 seconds.

01-15-2020 08:19 AM

Cougar429

Re: Amphibious Floats

Beautiful bird. If I had a site like that to fly think would leave it on floats.

Love the Twotter. Full size is one of my faves and one day like to do a scale.

01-14-2020 09:28 PM

stegl

Re: Amphibious Floats

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Originally Posted by Cougar429

Second, also in most cases, swapping from floats to wheels, (or skis) and back again is relatively simple and quick. In fact, I have a spare Super Bolt main gear with skis sitting on the spares shelf as it would be a very quick change out.
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Except this one , takes about 2.5 to 3 hours to rig the floats , wire rigging and retractable twin water rudders.

https://photos.google.com/share/AF1Q...s5NlZERktrS1dB

And in flight
https://photos.google.com/share/AF1Q...FCTmtiS0lDR1hR

01-14-2020 11:25 AM

michaely

Re: Amphibious Floats

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Originally Posted by Cougar429

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ps. The Seamaster mains in the second pic, (built back in the 80's) uses wire legs slid into brass tubes that extend across the fuse and then sealed into the structure. A rubber band or long O-ring adds tension and keeps them there. The nose comes off and the gear removed from a bulkhead fitting. Again, very quick and painless.

Thanks for the neat and simple solution for removeable main landing gear on flying boats.

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