Big rubber powered seaplanes!

[@GrandadIsAnOldMan]

Fascinating subject 👍👍

[@joshuawfinn]

I've been wanting to do this for a while and we had a lot of fun flying off the water. It had been almost 12 years since I had last flown off the water.

[@douglasslayback3441]

Grats on all the wins and records…a true aviation family 😃

[@williamrobinson7435]

Congratulations to Hope on the award! R.O.W. planes are so graceful. Maybe the aerodynamic profile of these foam floats actually helps to turn that early tendency to stall into that 'sit up and beg for lift' attitude.. I mean, the drag they provide may prevent the full blown stall developing, when the power is ramped up a bit.. Hoping y'all enjoyed the rest of the competition. 👍

[@joshuawfinn]

Thanks! I think the main factor for Hope's plane has been the great airfoil and very high powered, large propeller. The floats do add some lift and as such make the trim setup rather interesting. I suspect next year with some minor trim changes, this model will have an extremely strong climb pattern. We need to get the glide circle sorted first though because it's tending to wander out of thermals.

[@johnharen9921]

You guys certainly know how to have fun! Great results for Hope and Caleb.😀

[@joshuawfinn]

Thanks! This one was a ton of fun!

[@wwjoesr]

That second flight was: Wow!!! Wow!!! I agree :)

[@Tom-wl9sx]

Enjoyed watching, great flying 👍

[@joshuawfinn]

Thanks!

[@HobiCerdas]

Wow, that is big 😃😃😃. And a good rise of water. Did you polish with something so the water will not sticky

[@joshuawfinn]

Thanks! We skinned the floats with 0.6mil bopp laminating film. Very light, and impervious to water.

[@ariamperez6823]

They fly so well!

[@bobwebber8521]

Look forward to your videos. Love it the whole family is involved. Am looking for a source of rubber (and props because not too flash at building) here in New Zealand. Thanks once again.

[@joshuawfinn]

Bob, if you're on Facebook I can connect you with a freeflighter in NZ who should be able to help you get supplies. If not on FB, send me an email at [e-mail] and I'll see what I can do about getting you connected with the right people.

[@shop970]

Really great flyers! Wow!

[@joshuawfinn]

Thank you!

[@jeffmurphree2937]

Awesome!!! Love it!!!

[@johnnydavidcreative]

Love the ROW element - never seen that done before! Great stuff, guys, very inspirational 👏 Brightest Blessings; Johnny David 🙏

[@joshuawfinn]

Thanks! ROW is a ton of fun!

[@cannedcheese4189]

Looks like lots of fun

[@InferMel]

Absolute beauty

[@James-gz4oj]

absolutely brilliant you guys love it thank you

[@oneand-only3815]

Great video! Will you be at the thermal thumpers event at the sod farm this weekend? I'd love to see your Smoothie. I have dreams of building one of those and trying to add some newer building techniques / high tech materials.

[@joshuawfinn]

Unfortunately I usually only make it to one meet a year at Whitesburg, but we do fly fairly regularly at the Perry fairgrounds, which frankly is a better field with better retrieval options. Unfortunately the Smoothie is out of service. The motor blew up in flight a number of years ago and trashed the fuselage.

[@oneand-only3815]

@@joshuawfinn I ended up not making it out to the sod farm either. Have 4 planes that I could fly but nothing is trimmed well yet

[@Glicksman1]

Josh, how freakin' cool is that!

[@razzodjo9055]

very nice, Respekt

[@rishurathaur3609]

You guys work such as beautiful

[@joshuawfinn]

Thank you!

[@thebalsaboy]

I’ve been wanting to ask this question for a while. How do you do it? How do you get such great looking and flying models right off the bat and almost no trimming needed? (for most of them). Is it more of a patience or skill thing? I’ve always wondered.

[@joshuawfinn]

I spend a fair bit of time making sure the planes are built (and covered) straight, smooth, and with the correct warps. I also set my CG based on Don Deloach's tail volume method so that I can focus on a specific strategy of adjusting the plane without having to juggle both CG and incidence adjustments. For indoor flying, it's mainly about warp control since the planes are usually able to operate over a wide CG range.

[@thebalsaboy]

@@joshuawfinn Ok, thank you.

[@robertkummings6829]

This is the most relaxing thing I've ever witnessed 😅👍🏽 guess I'm going to have to try free flights Rubber power 👍🏽🇺🇲

[@widyasutomo]

Asyik...sambil ngadem😍

[@chrisgilpin3403]

Awesome to see a family learning together giving the children a life skill that will benefit them long into there future

[@joshuawfinn]

Thank you!

[@Faustj515]

Is there a kit or plans available for Hope’s model, I would like to build it.

[@joshuawfinn]

There's a link in the description to an RC version which is what we used as the basis for her plane. I'm going to try to get rights to produce it as a kit.

[@bradle1354]

This is your best video ever !!! In the beggining of the video you are wearing a red indoor shirt, do you sell them?

[@joshuawfinn]

Thank you! Unfortunately the red shirts aren't available that I know of. Mine is from the 2016 world champs in Romania to commemorate their annual Otto Hints F1D contest.

[@bradle1354]

@@joshuawfinn Thank you.

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

Love those dissipating Cb anvils as a backdrop.

[@joshuawfinn]

Yeah we get some awesome sunsets thanks to the convective activity here.

[@av8153]

Cool!

[@imaginedragons1662]

Where you bought rubber band And what is the name of rubberband Please reply Btw nice plane keep it up

[@joshuawfinn]

FAI Tan Supersport from faimodelsupply.com

[@MORCOPOLO0817]

Lucky kids to have a Dad who is all about Model airplanes!

[@joshuawfinn]

Lucky dad to have kids that love flying. 😀

[@bearshield7138]

very nice

[@chilly7261]

Stunning video Joshuaw! You and your family are making it look easy! It's not btw...

[@joshuawfinn]

Thanks Sam! Hope you're getting in some good flying this summer!

[@arneldobumatay3702]

This may sound obvious, and crazy, but everything you or your family builds flys! I can't believe the all flight successes your family has had. Please send some good flight karma to me. Thanks in advance.

[@joshuawfinn]

Thanks! We work hard at it and there are quite a few failures that don't make it onto the camera!

[@me262a1]

Great builds and congrats on the success. Too bad the wind came up for Hope's flight.

[@joshuawfinn]

I didn't get much video of the flight ops at Muncie, but Hope had several extremely nice flights that I didn't get on video. She came very close to winning 1st place.

[@aidanwelly]

Luar biasa.. 👍👍👍🥰🥰

[@sablatnic8030]

Maybe I should build water boots for the free flight Hangar Rat in my flight simulator

[@dr.jonathane.beaugez7870]

😊😊

[@netraclear3923]

My Like ia cheaper than your effort and your plane. So i give you a like.

[@stanburdick9708]

They got the date wrong

[@joshuawfinn]

Which date? I was probably going from memory.

[@JohnStenborg]

…lots of kite eating trees…

[@joshuawfinn]

Oh yes!