Flying my Seaplane as FAST as possible

Inspired by the Schneider Trophy, I built an RC floatplane! Check this video out to see us put it through a time trial. You can get the FREE build plans for this RC plane on my website. www.projectair...
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[@maxiemusfpv198]

I absolutely love how this channel is becoming what flite test used to be, an awesome entertaining specialized channel. Congratulations James

[@fjaramillo887]

yes its less clickbait and more building

[@TheGamerMan145]

better then flight test

[@ethanf3591]

Not true

[@michaelknott4361]

Here are some rules of thumb when it comes to floatplanes: 1: The floats are about 75% of the length of the plane. 2: The step is about halfway down the length of the float. 3: When the floats are installed, the step should be just behind the c.g. Hope this information helps, keep up the good work!

[@longuevalnz]

Well done James ... your low key helpers are funny

[@mr_46]

As always admirable how you get inspired, simply set off and do stuff - I appreciate that you share it here! - a fellow engineer

[@JDMAXX-kb5su]

Keep stoking those “Creative Flames” 🔥 Well Done. I’m an RC Pilot from the Chicago Area myself, with 7 years experience. ✈️

[@aerovexa8794]

I’ve started associating that background music with learning after watching Mark Rober

[@freddieparrydrums]

Lmao 😂

[@foamyflightmaster9385]

Nice looking model, flies well off the water. Floats are generating lift making level 'speed' flying a challenge. Keep up the good work.

[@iancurry8504]

Great project - always loved these racing planes. Best wishes from South Africa.

[@angelreading5098]

Well done James II was wondering when your next Project Air video was going to be uploaded and here you are,the floatplane seems to handle very well especially in that awful wind. I note several Vintage model company types in your workshop hanging from the walls.

[@Project-Air]

Thanks for watching people! Post comments of what mods I should do to make this plane much faster. 🔥🔥🔥

[@air-headedaviator1805]

Obviously bigger motor, smaller prop is one option. But it is a little thing, so you should pair it with an intunner motor for speeeeeed and force.

[@oliverw782]

6s!!!

[@cummibear69]

Take the efx racer setup as a reference

[@aleksanderwisniewski3504]

Except that, what people posted above, build new airframe. Box with attached wings, which have attached two more boxes can't get "speed challange". Something like floating flying wing would be awsome (and innovative by the way)

[@garypaisley]

Mono float

[@harlyquin]

5:48 That is one loud cricket

[@theothertonydutch]

Would be neat to organize actual trophee runs on this scale.

[@stratos2]

Hey James, I challenge you to re-develop the edf afterburner once made by David over on Flite Test. If there's anything I can help you with message me. I am developing one myself and have just recently managed to make it fire at full throttle without getting blown out.

[@alexairconditioning1581]

I am very interested in one of these if you make a video on it, that would be awesome

[@stratos2]

@@alexairconditioning1581 If I make a video on it then on my main channel (HB Stratos)

[@alexairconditioning1581]

@@stratos2 on an unrelated not do u have concord in your profile pic too??

[@stratos2]

@@alexairconditioning1581 Yes, I also have a simplified concorde in my logo, made in MS office powerpoint xD. For more talking and details on the burner I ask you to contact me on discord... you can find the invite link under every video on my main channel.

[@LesPaulDavis]

Full marks for the Captain Scarlet sting at the end!

[@jadonwilson2442]

If you want it to be faster racing strips are more effective than red paint

[@zuestoots5176]

And stickers.. Everybody knows each sticker is worth 5hp or in this case, 5mph

[@joshuawfinn]

Nice design. I think it's got a lot of potential, but you need to get the warp out of it that's causing that right wing to drag so much. Also I'm relatively sure the prop pitch is too low. Not sure what an optimal prop looks like for a foam floatplane since there's a lot of drag...

[@ianschroth6575]

Beautiful plane and great job on building it! I love the old Schneider Trophy planes,and ones that ran the old Cleveland Air Races, and the........

[@denismoran670]

Thanks, James.What an inspiring piece of work. The aircraft flew beautifully, and your design/build worked out to a splendid finish! I've downloaded the plans, and will build one in the Spring ( I have a 5 aircraft backlog!), so diolch yn fawr from Den, Swansea

[@Project-Air]

Denis Moran Diolch Den! Glad you enjoyed it and pleased to hear you’ll be building a floatplane of your own 😊

[@misheron9495]

Hello,please,can you send to me this plans)Because,they aren't available anymore...

[@slingshotrc4634]

Hey James. I hope you have your ears on. Is there an alternative link for the plans. Good plan. Looked real good on the water!

[@dad5650]

The step on the floats typically go slightly behind the CG point.

[@SqueezeboxOfDelights]

James: * gives detailed description on speed testing set-up * Me: hehehe Bottoms Reservoir

[@misheron9495]

Hello, you've done a really great job with this model. Best of luck with your future developments. By the way, I need the plan for this model, but I can't seem to find them on the website. It's empty. Could you please provide a new link? Thank you.

[@O.L.D_RC]

Been enjoying this subscription, saw you on Flite Test a while back and checked out your vids. Really cool watching what some might say was a fail and your critique of what went wrong, quite educational. Great projects! FYI, it's a seaplane if it has a boat-type hull, a float plane if it uses... floats. Lol Keep up the great work!

[@nanomckomsncom]

Very entertaining trio ! A " can do " attitude is mostly what is required from anyone building things.

[@BigMilan]

i don't know what the scale of this rc plane is (did you say it at all?), but assuming it's 1/15, then the scaled up speed of the full sized plane would have been about 1100kmph (about 700 mph). Impressive!.. assuming my scale estimation is about right haha

[@wideyxyz2271]

Is this Bottoms reservoir over near Macc? Just up the road from me!

[@MCsCreations]

Beautiful little airplane, dude! Fantastic!!! 😃

[@Project-Air]

Thanks!

[@erlconradgagni1623]

I love your plane design

[@phil1921]

It would be cool to see one made with some sort of guidance assistance system to help keep it level and strait.

[@sacrificialrubber779]

You design and build soooo many neat airplanes...design and build a recovery boat/craft!!😁

[@Project-Air]

Thanks Mike! More soon!

[@sacrificialrubber779]

I found a grappler claw on thingverse that I am going to print and build a pontoon style recovery craft!😁👍🏻

[@billpolits7594]

Suggest increase angle between datum and float waterline for smoother liftoffs!

[@socialus5689]

Many don't know this but uh. Ferrari red makes the plane instantly 20 MPH faster.

[@optionalcoast7478]

I definently want to get back into scratch building because of this channel

[@Project-Air]

My mission = success

[@snipereliete]

That was awsome.I've always wanted to build the Supermariene.the reason it was so hairy to fly is because the plane is too small.I've spent 30 years flying and building and had a master builder my dad(rest in peace dad) to help me.I like building aircraft with wingspan of 60-90mm.my dad always said that they were too small but I loved the fact they always flew great.I recommend u use a larger plane but we'll done on this project.I was very impressed.

[@Project-Air]

Thanks a lot!

[@samthekingyo]

Wondering if it's still possible to get hold of plans for this since the link is dead now? Interested in using them as a starting point for something. Great video, cheers

[@jakedevries1455]

That cheer haha this is excellent I love your channel and would have definitely cheered if I was there.

[@alperg1142]

Thanks.

[@Nera87]

Very cool project! 😉💪🏻👍🏻🔝

[@vtech8716]

Great job, see you from Russia, great hobby? good luck

[@oneeyemonster3262]

it's still a sweet looking model..Floats do strange things to air. So that's a pretty good design on your part for it to maiden .

[@Project-Air]

Thanks! Yeah it did feel a bit odd at tines, but I think that was mostly due to the crosswinds against the floats.

[@medelyess]

I like the intro 😅

[@sebyv9305]

Can you make a drone that can travel through all 3 mediums air, water and land Flyboat already covers 2 mediums, can wheels be added to flyboat?

[@peterzhao3387]

Ur awesome

[@jorgenelsonfelix52]

Excellent spectacular. Saludos desde Buenos Aires 👍😎

[@TechFitsShorts]

Superb video once again

[@Project-Air]

Cheers for watching!

[@elijahf111]

reminds me a lot of the baby Bugatti that one of the ft community members designed a couple years ago

[@electricflyer81]

Love ALL things R/C. Yes, more!

[@maxiemusfpv198]

Wee need more will on this channel

[@rmdcade1717]

James Whomsley is a man who uses a two-camera setup while watching videos on his computer just in case he needs to Jim the camera while getting an idea. :P

[@timovanzonneveld4087]

Awsome vid And The steps need to be under the cg

[@trongnghianguyen1605]

ahhh . the speed test ... Have you finished it ? Cant wait

[@testflyrc7811]

Cool project! Your airplane looked stable on the water and looked good in the air!!! Do you happen to know how fast your Seaplane went?

[@Project-Air]

Thanks, yep, I showed that here 8:50

[@testflyrc7811]

@@Project-Air Thanks! Do you happen to know how many KMH your airplane went? If you don't know it's okay with me. Thanks for making cool videos! I like how you designed this seaplane! I want to in the not to distant future, to design a foam board Cirrus sr22t.

[@rcbinchicken]

Very nice work. I'm curious, how were the floats constructed? What adhesives used etc.? Trying to figure out how I can prevent leaks if I one day try a floatplane of my own. :) In terms of higher speed, everyone's saying "beef it up" and they're not wrong, but I'd personally look at cutting drag before increasing power. Shaving boxy corners off fuse and floats to lower total surface area? Shaving down trailing edges of wings/stabs to as thin as possible? Seeing if you can get away with slightly smaller floats? (though maybe not much if going to a heavier power rig.)

[@Project-Air]

They're just made from foam board. They leaked a bit but were fine for this experimental plane. Thanks for the suggestions!

[@krotchlickmeugh627]

I use balsa and fiberglass. I also use glow engines. Electric is dumb. Rather fly 20 minutes. Land and refill then fly again.

[@TinyHouseHomestead]

Hey where can I download the plans?! 😁👍🇺🇸

[@mitush4562]

0:20 watching mark rober, huh?

[@boyofcow]

Great vid. Hope you'll be able to keep videos coming out soonest

[@Project-Air]

There will be more soon :)

[@seanluttrell9801]

Where can we get the plans to this plane? the description link doesn't work.

[@ub6o7]

he played the rober music this is how you know its good

[@air-headedaviator1805]

Oh I’m DEFINITELY building this

[@Project-Air]

Go for it!

[@MisterrJJ]

Great video

[@aaliyaahsan107]

You should try ardupilot

[@EricRobb]

PLEASE make a video of how to design an airplane in Adobe illustrator

[@Part_time_spacemarine]

That thing is fast and cute

[@peterfranzen3538]

Sounds like you need to build a rescue boat.

[@looneytunes47]

Floats Create Drag Drag Slow,s Planes Down...Speed Require,s Less Drag...Simple Physics.

[@RcAviation]

Great vid :) can't wait for more

[@Ghrank]

More Will

[@Project-Air]

Thanks Will, I'll let Will know

[@chrisjolicoeur8361]

As far as I’m concerned he earned that cheer 😂

[@franklinmadhu2938]

can you make a hovercar? pls

[@1212354a]

Almost 50!

[@austinhcoe]

Nice.

[@waltervanmuylder5061]

Hey, The link does not work ,with the other plans no problem, I would like a copy so that I can also build it, can you check what is wrong. Thanks Walter

[@Project-Air]

Hey Walter, it's now fixed. Thanks for letting me know! - James.

[@willparry]

Meanwhile the cricketers are wondering why the crowd are cheering.

[@aaliyaahsan107]

There is a cricket field there? I love cricket

[@thomasreddick5908]

i hear the red pain does increase horse power..

[@orestis94]

He painted the plane red.. for it to fly faster? Is this man a 40k Ork?

[@graywallace47]

HAHA Howzat! CHEERS

[@vittoriodiana2269]

Men at 0:29 is Colin Furze? 🤔

[@ethanhermsey]

The rudder is too big. still nice looking plane :)

[@gavinvales8928]

build the one in porco rosso

[@Project-Air]

Flite Test does that one! I've flown it and it goes great! store.flitetest.com/flite-test-sea-angel-electric-airplane-kit-1066mm-flt-1061/p827115

[@elijahf111]

what servos do you use on all these projects?

[@Project-Air]

Flite Test 9g digital servos mostly

[@mtbmaddox3232]

Where are the Flitetest creds

[@1stMrBullet]

the download for the plans on your website is not working...

[@Project-Air]

Fixed!

[@hakimchannel]

only 10% of subsribers watch, where are the 90%, i dont get it

[@iforce2d]

10% is about normal. A better question is why Tom Stanton routinely gets 60% or more within 12 hours... that's not even enough time to have been proper waking hours right around the world

[@beta175]

@@iforce2d I'd be willing to bet if you look at his statistics Tom Stanton has a lot of regular viewers who are not subscribed to his channel.

[@MoneymanRome]

Lol Mike Will made it 😂🤘🏽

[@aaliyaahsan107]

I have an idea of making a solar power plane

[@krotchlickmeugh627]

Already done.

[@4c02chanlokhei2]

How can l get the blueprint?

[@TheEviling]

what material was it laser cut from?

[@johnlichtenstein6158]

TheEviling foam board

[@Project-Air]

Flite Test 5mm waterproof foam board

[@lewismcgarry1349]

The website not work for anyone else?

[@Project-Air]

I've switched to putting all of my designs on my Patreon page for now (on the free home page) :)

[@lewismcgarry1349]

@@Project-Air ohh ok thank you:)

[@andrewhigham7601]

Will there be plans

[@Project-Air]

Andyman Hman 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️ check the description 😉

[@andrewhigham7601]

@@Project-Air thanks

[@TechFitsShorts]

Notifcation GAng

[@MichaelTeeuw]

You need more enthusiastic friends. 😅

[@angelreading5098]

Yes I thought that too ! kind of well I will do it if you want me to but not really interested ?

[@Project-Air]

@@angelreading5098 Haha, I get you. They're actually super helpful and enthusiastic - it's just a low key and somewhat sarcastic form of enthusiasm. 😂

[@timbeck7052]

Matthew beck

[@robertstewart9989]

Ork player located

[@alessiomonticelli8032]

M.C. 72

[@erlconradgagni1623]

Make more videos

[@timbeck7052]

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[@timbeck7052]

Wall plan r kll

[@timbeck7052]

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooiooooooooooo

[@megamelonlp6064]

ull only get the average speed