EasyStar Floatplane on the Mississipi River in Winona, MN

This video was shot in Winona, Minnesota at Prairie Island Campground on the Mississippi River on July 29th, 2007. It has a Mega 15/16/3 Brushless Motor a with an e-Flight 40 amp brushless speed controller. The Prop is a Graupner 5.5" x 4.3" (14cm x 11cm)and spins at 19,000 RPM static. The battery is a MAX-AMPS Li-Po 3,000mAh @ 7.2 volts. With this set-up, the plane can easily fly over 45MPH (70KPH). I have flown the plane for 45 minutes continuously at about 1/3 throttle before having to land. I made the floats out of solid pink extruded foam and covered them with red Tyvek housewrap tape. I also sealed the canopy gaps with the Tyvek tape. Since this video, I have added velcro to the underside of the wing and to the top of the floats so that I can put them on and take them off with ease. I also added two vertical cooling tubes sticking up to keep the temps down inside the canopy. I have made new floats that are a little bigger and I should be able to take off from the water, not just land on the water. I will show that in a future video on You Tube. Hastings MN RC You can go to maxamps.com for batteries.

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Science & Technology

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• Hastings
• MN
• Minnesota
• RC
• radio
• control
• airplane
• Multiplex
• EasyStar
• Max-Amps
• Winona
• Mississippi
• River
• Floatplane
• Electri

[RT450]

Thanks for your comment and you are correct that this was not the best looking water landing. We were near a campground on a small road along the river. I had been flying for about 20 minutes and it seems that a lot of people had gathered behind me. I was nervous and I had found that in the evening, the cool air just above the water can make a plane overshoot the intended landing zone, so I pushed it down a little more than I would have liked. I have since made many excellent water landings.

[canchewtell]

Some nice flying....floats, skis or wheels.....you seem to have mastered them all.

[RT450]

Thank you for the compliment...TK

[noreplyism]

Looks great. Have the pods added a lot of weight because it looked like you needed to really forced the nose down to land it?

[rcfreakamit]

Nice flying, nice landing (is that what it's called when you do it on water?).

I wouldn't have thought of doing such things with my EZS :)

[tenrazo215]

Another reason why the Easystar is so popular...it floats :)

The mods are endless. With the floats, it looks like a B-25 Mitchell!

[Artelian1]

Hi,

Great work.

Can You please put some foto to see haw You made this floats ?

I m in wheelchair and I need a solution to can launch the plane without any help from others. Tank You.

[solomanaltar]

cool ;) i knew somehow that you"ll answer for my comment... well, nice than can you upload some more landing videos for us to give info and ideas about how to built easystar floats.. and let us enjot to watch :) thnx for answer good days. Emrah from finland..

[solomanaltar]

nice fly but seems like not that good for your skills landing the water..

[fredjedh]

nice vid, also a great idea :p