Making DIY Pontoons / floats for an RC Airplane

Making pontoons is not that complicated when following simple rules for the design. We are using the same airplane made in a previous video, the Joytrainer, (based on the design Simple Storch from Flitetest) a good airplane for beginners.

Seaplanes are boats that can fly or airplanes that can float, either way, they’re cool because they can do both things, the good part is that we don’t need a runway because they can take off and land on water, which is the thing that happens to be 71% of the earth surface. Let’s see how we can design some floats for our airplanes.

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[bobwebber]

Excellent video. Just the right balance. One place where the water usually gets in is the water rudder post hole. You were spot on filling the floats with foam - very little extra weight and insurance against total sinking plus it would give extra strength length-wise in the float. Look forward to more.

[theoztreecrasher]

Another great build and flight, young fellah! Almost tempted to get out of my rocking chair and try to build something. :D

[Miami_Beach_RC]

I recently build the simple free flight glider and I have to say, its an amazing plane and flies great

[samarmstrong]

Awesome plane! have just built it and it flies great. this is definitely my next project and cant wait to build them!! Thanks so much for all the plans especially as they're free

[joelspangler]

Great project, looks and works great. I've been playing with colored wing tape (which I got from hobbyking) to make my foamboard creations look nicer. It's basically shipping tape that is colored, but also very thin and light. That might help with the discolorations some of your foaming glue caused as well as additional waterproofing. It looks to me like you are using too much elevator in your water take-offs - you want the plane to kind of lift/bounce itself off the water when it has enough speed to break surface tension. Try to only use enough elevator to prevent prop strikes on the water - you can probably back off elevator as you speed up - down to 20% or so at take off. If it doesn't want to take off without lots of elevator, you might need to add a little wing incidence by adding a 3-5mm shim under the front of your wing on the fusealage, or by just decreasing the height between the back of the pontoons and the tail of your plane.

[Dutchsweetshid]

I am making tiny floats for my mini mustang p51D.
Without a rudder in the floats, it is hard to maneuver on water but i almost got it working...
Will make a video if it works
My first rc plane was an Art Tech Coota, a water plane and since then I got the waterplane fever

[gasperlavric]

I like it, you are amazing. For the next project you can make a simple warbird.

[trondaustad]

hi there, nice job and a interesting video, l think l have to try this things out, grettings from NORWAY

[TheLifeTerm]

Great job. Will be adding floats to my scratch built, foamie Lazy Bee 🐝

[comet]

I have one question, may be foolish, are you connecting the float rudder servo thru Y cable on plane rudder servo ?

[Sandokans]

Hi, nice work like allways.
Can you build snow skies, for the plane?!I have snow here..Thank

[yayathidayat]

cool, those pontoon doing really good job

[liamoliverdarroch]

Cool video, I am wondering how much the plane weighs, do you know?

[kidalainababy]

You always flies very amazing rc planes can you please tell me that the flight time of these planes using 3 or 4s battery?

[anmolkumar]

Why not try some cardboard free flight
Gliders because i am currently out of foam and it is not available easily
That would be great if you try so

[maheshwardhone]

you added the rudder on the left which create a noticeable drag during takeoff. also its weight turns the model towards left. i think soo🤔❤️

[KaliKavala]

I use depron and cover it with scotch tape.. sticky tape.. depends on what u call it. Do it with overlap of more than 50% and it becomes pretty much water resistant

[mohammedfahad]

Bro. Battery how many voltages ahnd mah are used here

[aparajitaroy]

u can use the same engine on LEGO propeller planes

[Soy_anonim]

Estoy suscrito a tu canal en español, no sabía que tenias este otro 😅