01-21-2013, 04:26 AM
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Originally Posted by Alf_Geiger
I now live on the water and am in the process of converting all my planes with floats, been pretty good converting over the prop planes with floats but am struggling a bit with the ducted fan jets.
The fuselage on jets is quite long, using the guidelines for floats doesn't seem to work as the 75% length of the fuselage doesn't put the front of the float much past the "long" nose found on most jets.
Anyone crack the code on converting ducted fan jets to seaplane? I am on my fourth modification of floats on a BD-5 (70mm motor) and am starting to doubt that this will ROW.
Hi  IMHO EDFs dont have enought thrust to get a plane/jet Airborn from water, just to much water drag on the floats. and a BD-5 does not have very much wing area for lift off of water.
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