SnowRocker88
Amateur pilot and builder
Haha, that's a cool idea! Looks good so far, keep it up!
Hydroplane in the works
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Stingray Aviation
Junior Member
Ekranoplan?
I am actually working on something similar, a ground-effect aircraft. I doubt it will perform very well on the first few flights but i think I can improve it as I experiment with it more. I'm looking for amphibious capability and it will probably have enough power to climb temporarily out of ground effect like the hydroplanes in the vid that was posted.
Mine will look similar to the Russian ekranoplans that were built in the Cold War, aka the Caspian Sea Monster. It will have short, stubby rectangular wings toward the nose and a high t-tail with the motor mounted on the vertical stabilizer.
Right now I'm finishing up the CAD drawings and I will start a build thread with plans when I have the prototype built and tested. Good luck with your design, i have to say that is way more likely to work than my crazy contraption
Pic is what my ekranoplan will look sort of look like.
I am actually working on something similar, a ground-effect aircraft. I doubt it will perform very well on the first few flights but i think I can improve it as I experiment with it more. I'm looking for amphibious capability and it will probably have enough power to climb temporarily out of ground effect like the hydroplanes in the vid that was posted.
Mine will look similar to the Russian ekranoplans that were built in the Cold War, aka the Caspian Sea Monster. It will have short, stubby rectangular wings toward the nose and a high t-tail with the motor mounted on the vertical stabilizer.
Right now I'm finishing up the CAD drawings and I will start a build thread with plans when I have the prototype built and tested. Good luck with your design, i have to say that is way more likely to work than my crazy contraption
Pic is what my ekranoplan will look sort of look like.
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SnowRocker88
Amateur pilot and builder
I am actually working on something similar, a ground-effect aircraft. I doubt it will perform very well on the first few flights but i think I can improve it as I experiment with it more. I'm looking for amphibious capability and it will probably have enough power to climb temporarily out of ground effect like the hydroplanes in the vid that was posted.
Mine will look similar to the Russian ekranoplans that were built in the Cold War, aka the Caspian Sea Monster. It will have short, stubby rectangular wings toward the nose and a high t-tail with the motor mounted on the vertical stabilizer.
Right now I'm finishing up the CAD drawings and I will start a build thread with plans when I have the prototype built and tested. Good luck with your design, i have to say that is way more likely to work than my crazy contraption
Pic is what my ekranoplan will look sort of look like.
You can't mention an Ekranoplan without me thinking of this behemoth...
Nathan_116
Member
Actually I was thinking about something more like this.
As Kurt said, something that looks more like a sea craft, but also works on land, kinda like the snowball was supposed to do, but will jump into the air with no problem. looks easy to fly and looks like it has great ground handling. I printed out the planes found here at 150% as it was designed for 3mm foam, and am planning on building a pair with my sister as here in PA, outside of Philly, we're looking at snow falling and accumulating to up to 12", so me and her are going to race around our backyard. I'm going to do a little TX programming to keep it on the ground for right now, probably mix in a little down elevator with the increase of throttle and add some aileron to the rudder to increase ground stability. Who know, might even alter the plans to fit a powerpod and then post them as an article for others to try out.
Just another thing to add to my list of "creation/improvements/redesign", YAY!!!
thanks for all the ideas though,
Nathan
As Kurt said, something that looks more like a sea craft, but also works on land, kinda like the snowball was supposed to do, but will jump into the air with no problem. looks easy to fly and looks like it has great ground handling. I printed out the planes found here at 150% as it was designed for 3mm foam, and am planning on building a pair with my sister as here in PA, outside of Philly, we're looking at snow falling and accumulating to up to 12", so me and her are going to race around our backyard. I'm going to do a little TX programming to keep it on the ground for right now, probably mix in a little down elevator with the increase of throttle and add some aileron to the rudder to increase ground stability. Who know, might even alter the plans to fit a powerpod and then post them as an article for others to try out.
Just another thing to add to my list of "creation/improvements/redesign", YAY!!!
thanks for all the ideas though,
Nathan
Nathan_116
Member
Sweet!!!!! I am in the middle of building the one I posted about for my little sister and I to race around in the snow. Will definitely have to build your though when it's finished as the one I posted about is designed for 3mm Depron, not DTF so I have to take all the paper off and then jam it into the slots which are slightly undersized.
Can't wait!!!
Sure, most of it I learned from Jason Anderson. He made this tutorial series for just that.
Then there is thatjoshguy that made this,
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