I'm a "Wet" flyer. I like the engines. Single cylinder, cast aluminum, Alcohol oil fuel mix. 2 cycle, little screamers. I Design and build primarily with Balsa Wood. "Build-up" ribs and wings. Flat sided Fuselage. Been flying R/C since 1976. Lastest.... 48x36 Blended Body Delta, this is build-up. Flown with 4 channels using Ail & elv mixed. Tri gear for the wheels. Engines used, .25 BB with a 9x6 prop, .46 BB with a 10x6. This thing is crazy fast. Hammerhead stall drop it's nose back flying in a heartbeat. Other planes, used or broke. 56 - 60 in Trainers, 40 sized engine 4 -6 channel radios. Look thru the dumpsters at flying fields salvage any airplane part (s) broken planes. Bring them all home and fix them. It's a hobby. I something new every day.

Beautiful design. I have been flying a BMW1200 engine with a custom cnc geared reduction and am extremely happy with it.

I wish you luck. You can do it. One concern, the thrusters may pull in sea weeds. I had great deal of hassle with my water craft Yamaha wave runner and I had to dive under to pull them out by hands. If you can install a kitchen garbage disposal blades in the front of the thrusters will be great . GOD BLESS YOU

I dont know solid works seems too sketchy adter reading terms....

looks like a very draggy thing! but i might be mistaken...looking cool but ...sorry, nope...with enoigh bower it will fly possibly well, but that fusellage alone plus the pontoons...and all the interference drag ...is that just for a model! ? ...a GA? good luck, there was a well known similar design..they went brocke and brought dawn all the prepayers! ...you have a flat plate fusellage design with a ton of curves above and underneath...it does not really look like more than a 1,4 cl fusellage shape when you are lucky, lifting bodies are surely an idea, but i am sceptical...

I like this!!

I think I know a better way to design things than drawing them on paper. I do have the free version of fusion 360, so I wonder if that could work?

i am curious to see what happen next , i wish i could have been part of this

It would be fun to run the CAD model as STL and use CFD to analyze aerodynamic data.

I have this idea of an asymetrical airplane for my fictional story, i feel like it would work flawlessfly but everyoen else tells me otherwise. Could you tell me if this would fly? It's shaped like a P-38 Lightning but the airliner-like passenger tube is on one of the sides where one of the propellers would be, and on the other is a giant engine the same size as the passenger area. The only engine is the one on that one side. Would this fly properly?

HI, I have seen all of your video and will you able to send the cad file so that I can test in software and give you feedback if possible. Thank you

Really impressed by your hard work. I am an aeronautical engineer and recently I have been searching for a new aircraft design that can work with hydrogen fuel cell. You gave me hope to get a design and process too. Thank You so much.

As soon as you mentioned "jet thrusters" I stopped watching. Don't tell people it's OK to be stupid.

I want this little plane

you are a cool guy thanks for the explanation

At 12:50 in the video, it shows the different compartments of the pontoon; I would recommend having flooded compartments (ballast tank) to balance out the aircraft while on water for a more comfortable ride. Which should be adjustable so when in flight it may be dumped to provide better flight control and filled in water.

Amazing video sir!! Hats off to your never give up spirit, its really apprciating, i was actually looking for an idea where i can design an aircraft of my own without spending hell lot of money over it and that's where i found your video. Thanks for the guidance sir .. 👍😊

I’m not an expert, but the sharp edge on the leading end of your fuselage may cause some separation. I’m also intrigued by your pusher prop idea, you need to be careful with that though and keeping it out of the water.

It would be cool to convert a small plane into a tilt rotor aircraft, but I know I can’t do it alone, I would require a team of experts who understand the aerodynamics of any aircraft as well as experienced engineers

I love ur idea of electric jet thrusters.

For a first video, extremely well done!

Yea, don't worry about aerodynamics, structure, safety, manufacturability, function. Just get something "sexy" down on paper, then into a computer. Yea, that's the ticket. Function follows forum right or something like that. If you 'identify' as an aeronautical engineer, then you are one. I mean, after all, what's the point of surviving a trip, if you can't look "sexy" doing it. Good for all you commenters for validating his truth. Speak truth to power✊, what could possibly go wrong.

this is awesome

Thanks alot for making perfect video brother how can I find your next one❤

20 yr seaplane pilot. Interesting design. You will find that the sharp vertical inside edges of your floats will cause you grief when landing. It is not uncommon to have a little lateral drift as you land and that edge will cause large lateral force on the pontoon as it contacts the water.

Having worked as a drafter for an aluminum jet boat manufacturer, i can tell you a bit about hulls, which you can use to inform the pontoon design. Also, while you may think the building of a scale model may not help prove the aerodynamics, I think that it is quite applicable to to helping evaluate the hydrodynamics, and the weight and balance at various speeds, taking off and landing. The jet boats I worked on had angled vee-shaped hull bottoms (called the Deadrise angle) The river boats that had to run in shallow water had 8 or 10 degree angles from horizontal, each side. The lake boats had steeper angles up to 20 degrees, for dealing with larger waves. The larger the deadrise angle, the more the hull can pierce the waves. (less slap.) So I think you want a steep angle at the front, and flatter at the rear.. so when you are landing at 140 knts, you benefit from planing at the rear, and piercing at the front.. but your pontoon volume along the length must also be proportional to the weight distribution. Your design looks a bit skinny at the front, meaning that it will be pitched forward sitting in the water.. so I do recommend spending some time with a model in the water and adjusting the weight distribution. Then you can optimize the shape of the deadrise for the planing and wave piercing aspects.. again.. experiment as much as possible.. fail early fail fast, and challenge all of your assumptions..

Pontoons are for boats Danny. Airplanes have floats.

Man thanks so much for making this video, I don’t want to design a full scale aircraft just yet, but designing an RC aircraft would be awesome! I’m going to dedicate time to learning about design, aerodynamics, and electrics to design a good RC aircraft!

You do not even sound as a technician. You need to be very good in drawing and 3D modeling if you want to get something created. Solidworks is a really good program to be in but you took classes and still could not make a part, come on...? I learn more about engineering just from reading books, watching youtube and create small projects then I do at school.

Scaled version would be tempting to buy though.

I have a dream to build an aircraft of some sort that focuses on photography, I want to follow in my Great-Grandfathers footsteps in designing aircraft as he had contributed to the design of the A-5 Vigilante. I am only 13 and have no experience but I believe I can make it happen.

Am working on something like this I hope to get right guys to work with

Great video Mike, the last one in the list is a steal!

So where do you put all the 12 volt batteries for the elec jet pumps? Much better weight problem solved using small jet ski engines. Or just use your already ample plane engines and leave out the jet pumps. Did I hear you right, its 400 HP?

lol i wasnt expevting such a good sense of humor, great video

Amazing, I am on the same path. I am finishing my master of science in the field of Ocean engineering Naval Architektur. I had been studing in Lisbone (member of Erasmus+ for best students). Still I have the same dificulties with using CAD software. In my proffesion seferal of those are used to design and produce any vessel or off shore unit or platform, like: Catia, Forran, Ansys, and many others. Huge respect for you, like your passion and how you overcome your weaknesses. Gain your knoldge and completed your vision. I know for sure that in the future I will see your design in operation.

Very cool!! I wouldn't personally bother with the thrusters, just added weight and complication. The twin props will work perfectly for maneuverability. The pontoons, could be joined into a hydrofoil, creating both lift in the water and air, make for some smooth take offs!!! thanks for sharing!!! I'm subscribing :-)

Flight characteristics can be learned by way of RC. Whoever told you otherwise is about a fool.

Cant wait to order a kit!

uh bro its bean years u gonna upload?

kzbin.info/www/bejne/p4qrZ6Jtmql5aLc The engineering knowledge is about the same. But in Arica they lack the cool CAD visualisations ...

Well, the Construction Manual says it all: 'Safty in Design'. And I'm sure the thing will cost less than 40k, can be built by total amateurs in 3 months and it will include a soda fountain ...

Float shape and main landing gear placement. The Step of the Float needs to be Aft of but as close to the CG as possible. Its almost the same point as the Main Gear. To Rotate the aircraft on land or (water, The aircraft will skim on the water on a section just forward of the Step) if the pivot point is too far Aft of the CG, the tail has a lot of work to do to push down and raise the nose. Water, as the Pilot Rotates, the section of the step aft of the CG (wants to be the pivot point) digs into the water creating drag and preventing takeoff. Wheels, The higher the CG above the takeoff surface. During the rotation, the CG point moves past the pivot point and the pilot must correct for the Tail now Falling. Look at Amphibious floats manufactured by Wipaire etc. Main Gear doors. Quite Often under the pressure of water operations,( Water rudders mostly) and the gear is forgotten down for takeoff. As the Pilot sets power, he quickly realizes his mistake, Stops, Raises Gear, Embarrassed, He resets and takes off. Gear doors wouldn't last in 5 knots of water. Thats how I see it. Best of luck.

Im looking to start my first experimental build and just came across this. Couple of things have you considered not having nosewheel steering at all and just using a free spinning nosewheel and differential braking to steer? Its a little harder on the brakes but would probably save some weight. Also have you thought about doing something along the lines of Aircraft Spruce. In addition to the complete kits they also offer everything down to every nut and bolt for the build al la carte. Basically you can buy anything from just plans all the way up to a 49% assembled kit and everything in between.. Also It would be nice if someone offered smaller (I'll call them staged kits) kits. So if you have space constraints, you're on a budget, or just get easily distracted/overwhelmed working on large projects you can buy the parts for the aircraft as you complete it. (I'm just spit balling here as in reality it would simply be following the plans in order, just broken up into stages) So basically you buy the 1st stage kit. This could be like your basic frame, wing roots, spars etc that need to be assembled first. Then once that's complete you can buy the 2nd stage, which could be landing gear, electrical, flight controls etc. Stage 3 and so on until the plane is complete. These broken up into 5K-10K (20K at the most) would allow much easier entry into the build and allow builders to work one thing at a time without parts strewn everywhere. If you offered something like a staged build I would definitely be on board day 1. Right now thats the only reason I really haven't jumped on a Velocity or complete Cozy kit as there is NO WAY I would be able to convince my wife to let me swing 50-70k+ "for an unnecessary toy" all at once (I mean I could just do it anyway but I kinda want to keep her around and not worry about waking up in the morning lol). But she wont notice 5-10K here and there every 6 months or so lol. Anyway, I've rambled enough. Just wanted to say I love what you're doing and the direction you're taking. Hope you get around to an update soon. Cant wait to see the finished product!

Float tanks

Hi this video was very helpful for my project, i’m going to build an rc model first and then scale it up to fullsize, i have a question, i know a small scale ornothopter is possible but would a full scale one be impossible to build? If it’s not i’ll build a fixed wing instead

Wow

I think the main gear doors are going to be a challenge since water is very dense some step in front of the doors is a must so they aren’t grabbed by the water and ripped off, bilge pumps are a must and they add weight, location of the bilges for scavenging is important so water doesn’t pool and the composite doesn’t start creating bubbles, galvanic corrosion is important to take into consideration, i hope I can be of help and if I am wrong please let’s talk

Two 150hp rotax with variable pitch props will make this a seller and an absolute monster on takeoff and landings

YYEEEESSS, HOPE TO SEE THIS AND FLY THIIISSS