Take off!
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Landing approach
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Just before touchdown
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Touchdown!
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back taxi
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What a perfect float plane! Great for smaller lakes, highly aerobatic, fun plane

Great looking photo's !!

Greets,

Bart

That looks like fun.

Lookin good! Im going to have to join yall soon!

Originally Posted by Herman Munster

The center of gravity shouldn't change with the installation of floats. You still balance it at the recommended CG. Now you might have to add some ballast to the front to get it to balance with the floats installed.





That may work for you, but when I balance my Goldberg Cub or my Great Planes .60 size Cub with the full length(90") wing the same with floats as wheels, on floats they are horribly touchy at elevator control. They fly tail heavy.
I add nose weight and balance it nose down and it settles down into the Cub that I know and love.
Great Planes even shows two different positions for their CG on the .60 Cub. The plane on wheels is at 4 1/2 inch back from the leading edge. With floats the CG is forward of that at 4 1/4 back from the LE of the wing.
I still think the curve at the front of the floats are generating liftand making the plane fly tail heavy.
Just for an example: The Goldberg Cub with Plane Fun Floats from Ralph Smith. I balance it in the exact samt location as I do with wheels. Then I add a heavy brass spinner with a crankshaft weight behine it to get it to fly like it should.
Without the weight, it will snap out at the top of a loop and it's really hard to land because it wants to snap when I give it elevator to flare(flair?) to set the tails of the floats down first,
Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but that's how it works for me.

Dave

DGFinch, What's the power system you are using on the Saratoga?

Originally Posted by Fast Freddy

DGFinch, What's the power system you are using on the Saratoga?

She has an Eflite Power 46 swinging a 14x7 prop, a Castle Creations ICE 75, powered by a nanotech 4S4000. FAB-U-LOUS combination


PS. Just saw this for anyone interested in a Saratoga. http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1621001

No affiliation, no warranty expressed or implied, taxes, title, destination charge, extra. Dealer maintains all rebates. This should not be considered legal advice. Seek the counsel of your own physician before beginning this or any other airplane purchase. :-)

Oh, you are an electric guy. LOL

Well, ya! That's why they let me fly in all of the pretty municipal parks :-)

I made the scale mounting skirt for the wing tip floats on the PBY. I used styrene and made tunnels for the wire to travel through then I glued them together and slipped them over the wires and now they have a scale look. I am going to try and maiden her this coming weekend if the lake is not frozen.

if you don't pop over into the "scratch built foamies" section...?

thought i would share my little fun-fly "Wot-Next" on floats with you








and here it is flying in a howling horrible blustery wind....

"Wot-Next" on floats (4 min 44 sec)

David

World Models 1/4 Clipped wing Cub with Mintor 33cc engine. Sea plane supply 46" floats, came out 2 pounds 4 ounces total added to plane.

Originally Posted by vrider

This is my FMS Cessna 55" from SN Hobbies with Slocan 28" floats. It's only been out once as a float plane, but flew really well!

Made of video of it and my boat as well:

FLOAT PLANE NARROWLY MISSES BOAT ON TAKE OFF! HD (2 min 32 sec)

Some pics of a new set of floats I made for my Hobbico Electristar.

Fast Guy did you also make the struts? Those are real nice. If so tell us more about the how