Foamydm Seaplane challenge bat gl8der
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Bo123
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Also, a kfm is more effective at higher speeds, so it wouldn't work very well. A really thin aerofoil with a bit of under camber would work really well. Have a play around on this website: http://www.airfoiltools.com/plotter/index
FlyerInStyle
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so my simple soarer is built, and I cut out two very lightweight swappable floats to put onto the Simple Soarer. it flyies nice, but I am trying to figure out how to make a powered nose for a lightweight ppa motor
FlyerInStyle
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sorry I am not up to that designing stage yet. any rc flying boat or swappable with floats, could work, even an rc boat wwith a towline. it will have a motor though
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Finished it up. as you can see I am using a power pack a motor, on a 3s 1300, with an extra AA in the front for it to balance. I had to fix the tail, when I had gotten it stuck in a tree on a maiden with the motor, and so that added tons of tail weight. waiting for the weather to cool down. I will be making this with all the needed pieces from the simple soarer as plans for any willing beta builders, who are willing to try this on water, As I do not have anything near me where to try it, and I do not trust my skills. As you can see in the picture, a 6 inch prop will be constantly touching the water so, it will not work. I would recommend it with a 3 or 4 inch prop and the smae combo of electronics, as it was overpowered with a 6 inch prop on 2s. 3s with a 6 inch will need to be limited to lower than 60 percent as that was what I was using on 2s. any tips on other motor placement to allow for larger props? would be happy to change it while I can.
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FlyerInStyle
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It Flew!! video might be later plans done but not tiled. for now they are not tiled. for nowI will try to fix it after the crash. I will be building a mini scout for now since I have a smaller place, so I might step away for some time. what I would love though, is if some beta builders would step up would nice.
Matthewdupreez
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whats ur wingspan?
Taildragger
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simple soarer so 59"
Matthewdupreez
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and it flies on PPA?? how many cells?
would it fly on a PPF 3s?
Taildragger
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oh it might be a scaled down simple soarer
FlyerInStyle
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Oh
Its full size.
Before, a 2s 800, with a 6 by 3 prop, and 2 AA as nose weight. N9w, a 3s 1300, a 4 by 4.5 prop, should be more than enough thrust, and the prop is small enough to not touch the ground when it wits, so taxi on water may work.
Also some progress, I added an led so that it looks cool like a machine gun, but could also be used to see the propeller during sunset flights. I used an old sevo modified for the on off switch, to controll the led from the remote. Here's a video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/16O_2ECmkTlMhWHQD7xZvPSo6N1VW1uoK/view?usp=drivesdk that wasme turning in off from remote
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Matthewdupreez
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gosh i would never have thought the simple soarer would have flown off of a Power pack A or F
Taildragger
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Mine flew far without any power at all so not much is neededgosh i would never have thought the simple soarer would have flown off of a Power pack A or F
FlyerInStyle
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by the way, on a ppa I had to [ut in a mix so that for 100 percent throttle the elevator would move down 80 percent for it to not stall, but really I am only planning on flying it maximum 20ft high anyways, as I am on a school field.gosh i would never have thought the simple soarer would have flown off of a Power pack A or F
FlyerInStyle
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No beta builders? I am going to release it as a resource.
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