My first waterplane

[Christer Lagerstedt]

Hello All. I am very happy about this site. I am a keen Waterplane flyer from Sweden. Built my first floatplane, a Heinkel He 5 T a couple of years ago. This was also my first scale model. Unfortunately (regarding this site) it was powered by a Saito 45 4-stroke engine. The power was a bit marginal but very scale. The original was powered by a 450 Hp Bristol Jupiter radial.

By the way, the Hansa Brandenburg seaplanes were designed by Ernst Heinkel. He worked in Sweden after the first world war. Several of his floatplanes were built here. We later built several of Heinkels designs here and used them even during the second world war.

The planes were always called Hansa´s even when they really were Heinkels. My model is of a "Bristol-Hansa"

Christer Lagerstedt
Haninge MFC, Sweden

[Christer Lagerstedt]

This is a flying picture of my Hansa.

Christer

[Christer Lagerstedt]

After the Hansa I built and flew several ordinary models on floats. My next major seaplane was this Anderson Kingfisher to a quarter scale. It is from a design by Dennis Tapsfield in the UK.

It is a very nice flyer. Sorry, still not electric powered but just waite.

Christer

[Christer Lagerstedt]

Here comes the first electric model for me.

Together with my son Martin I designed and we built this model of Howard Hughes "Spruce Goose". The scale is 1/40, span 96" or 2,44 metres, length 66" or 1.67 metres. It is powered by 8 Speed 400 motors driving Graupner 4-blade props from 28 Sanyo 1700 SCRC cells. The all up weight is 13.5 lbs or 6.14 kilos

For the full story, go to Martins site: http://fly.to/flying_solutions

My next waterplane will be electric and have more than one motor.

Christer

[pondflyer]

No need to apologize! The waterplane forum is for all waterplanes of any stripe. Glad to have you and to see your planes! Welcome aboard.
Dick:)

[Fredrik W]

Hej Christer!! :) Nice to see you in this forum. (Christer is the chairman of my club...)

As pondflyer said, no need to apologize. This forum is not sorted under Electrics only. Slimers is more than welcomed here!

I have a lot of pictures from our clubs water fly-in earlier this year. I will have the pictures on my site in a few days. Will post a new thread then.

Teaser:


// Fredrik Wergeland
Sweden
www.flyingmodels.org (http://www.flyingmodels.org)
The Great Electric Motor Test (http://www.flyingmodels.org/motortest/Link_e.htm)

[Jeff Charlot]

Very nice planes guys! Excellent detailing.

Jeff

[Ironsides]

Christer and Martin:

Beautiful work. I fly both glow and electric water-based aircraft.

The Andersen Kingfisher is a good choice because you can use a standard Cub wing.

Fredrik:

Nice looking Norseman. That plane opened up the Canadian North in the 1930's. I have flown the Unionville kit version.

David

[Fredrik W]

Ironsides. The Norseman is not mine, (unfortunately). I think it is a Unionville-kit. More pics tomorrow evening.


// Fredrik Wergeland
Sweden
www.flyingmodels.org (http://www.flyingmodels.org)
The Great Electric Motor Test (http://www.flyingmodels.org/motortest/Link_e.htm)

[dottney]

Christer,
Is the Hansa from plans or a kit? Its absolutely manificent.
Dave

[Don Sims]

Fantistic looking planes!

[Martin Hunter]

Those are stunning! Thanks for the pics :)

Martin

[Fredrik W]

Don Sims & Martin Hunter, don´t miss the "Pictures from a Swedish water plane meeting". There is more of the pudding in that thread! :)


// Fredrik Wergeland
Sweden
www.flyingmodels.org (http://www.flyingmodels.org)
The Great Electric Motor Test (http://www.flyingmodels.org/motortest/Link_e.htm)

[Christer Lagerstedt]

My Heinkel He 5 T "Bristol Hansa" is built from a plan. A plan I draw myself with help of a three-view by Bjoern Karlstroem in a Swedish magazine.

Unfortunarely the plan is not detailed enought for publishing.

I think the model is quite scale. The airfoil is even undercambered like on the full size aircraft.

Christer