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A larger Catalina Flying boat needed!
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Originally posted by TiredIronGRB View Post
I taught myself how to fly on one of these, I still have it and it still flys...it's just not very pretty:Straight-Face:
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Originally posted by BRGT350 View Post
I bought mine early in my career thinking a slow flying boat with a fat wing would be easy. I decided to wait and I am glad I did! It was more squirrely that I would have thought! Much respect that you learned on one of those!
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I have the Dyynam cat. It flies pretty decently. However today after several very nice flights at the lake, the motor mount failed and some water got in the esc and let the magic smoke out. Easy repair, but the flaws in the Dynam really make me wish for a beautiful Flightline Catalina.
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Originally posted by Gilatrout View PostI have the Dyynam cat. It flies pretty decently. However today after several very nice flights at the lake, the motor mount failed and some water got in the esc and let the magic smoke out. Easy repair, but the flaws in the Dynam really make me wish for a beautiful Flightline Catalina.
This is as much water as it ever sees:
Dynam PBY-5A Catalina by Bryan Redeker, on Flickr
Since this picture was taken, the nose art has been added, a .50cal in the nose turret (should be a smaller .30cal instead), counter-rotating props, landing lights, Robart wheels and tires, and counter-rotating props installed. I have a good size pond behind my house that I use for float-plane operation, but the PBY is just too big to safely fly it around behind the house. Trees and neighbors make it hard to fly off the pond with anything bigger than the UMX Timber and J3.
A slightly larger PBY with removable outer wings, retractable floats, higher quality construction, and suitable design for water operation (water-proofing electronics) would be nice.
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Originally posted by BRGT350 View Post
Yeah, the quality of the PBY isn't the best. Mine has never flown off the water after seeing so many failures and problems with trying to deal with the water spray getting into the electronics. Mine flies off of the grass instead. Funny to have a flying boat that never sees the water.
This is as much water as it ever sees:
Dynam PBY-5A Catalina by Bryan Redeker, on Flickr
Since this picture was taken, the nose art has been added, a .50cal in the nose turret (should be a smaller .30cal instead), counter-rotating props, landing lights, Robart wheels and tires, and counter-rotating props installed. I have a good size pond behind my house that I use for float-plane operation, but the PBY is just too big to safely fly it around behind the house. Trees and neighbors make it hard to fly off the pond with anything bigger than the UMX Timber and J3.
A slightly larger PBY with removable outer wings, retractable floats, higher quality construction, and suitable design for water operation (water-proofing electronics) would be nice.
Woody
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Originally posted by BRGT350 View Post
Yeah, the quality of the PBY isn't the best. Mine has never flown off the water after seeing so many failures and problems with trying to deal with the water spray getting into the electronics. Mine flies off of the grass instead. Funny to have a flying boat that never sees the water.
This is as much water as it ever sees:
Dynam PBY-5A Catalina by Bryan Redeker, on Flickr
Since this picture was taken, the nose art has been added, a .50cal in the nose turret (should be a smaller .30cal instead), counter-rotating props, landing lights, Robart wheels and tires, and counter-rotating props installed. I have a good size pond behind my house that I use for float-plane operation, but the PBY is just too big to safely fly it around behind the house. Trees and neighbors make it hard to fly off the pond with anything bigger than the UMX Timber and J3.
A slightly larger PBY with removable outer wings, retractable floats, higher quality construction, and suitable design for water operation (water-proofing electronics) would be nice.
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HK used to sell a larger balsa Catalina, but it went the way of the Dodo. A big foam Cat with improvements, would be the bomb. I remove the heat shrink from my ESC's and coat them with "Silicone Conformal Coating" which allows the Cat to go "Submarine" if she ends up that way. You have to treat her right, or she can be a handful...
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