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North Aire floats.
Anyone have experience with these? Wag Aero are selling plans for these
still. Anyone know of their history? were they always a homebuilt design? Are they compartmentalised like Edos? Performance? ease of building, expense? TIA! F1 |
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On Sun, 4 Feb 2007 18:43:28 +0000 (UTC), Fortunat1 wrote:
Anyone have experience with these? Wag Aero are selling plans for these still. Anyone know of their history? were they always a homebuilt design? Are they compartmentalised like Edos? Performance? ease of building, expense? TIA! F1 They're not very big. Only about 1400# IIRC what are you putting them on? |
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"Drew Dalgleish" wrote They're not very big. Only about 1400# IIRC what are you putting them on? Dang, those are some heavy floats!!! g Really though, if you are talking about how much gross weight they will handle, that fits very nicely for the LSA, don't you think? -- Jim in NC |
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"Fortunat1" wrote Big enough, Junior Ace or Cub... Off the top of my head Wag Aero mentioned up to 1500.. I'm not too enthusiastic about wood floats and I would like to scratch build them as opposed to going for one of the (expensive) foam options or the even more expensive second hand edo option.. Why is it that you are not enthusiastic about wood floats? Something about using them, or building them? -- Jim in NC |
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Fortunat1 wrote:
Anyone have experience with these? Wag Aero are selling plans for these still. Anyone know of their history? were they always a homebuilt design? Are they compartmentalised like Edos? Performance? ease of building, expense? TIA! F1 I have the drawings, they have water tight compartments. They are built a lot like Edos or Wiplines or PeeKays, except whithout the fluted bottoms. They are definitely not for sheetmetal beginners. They also look extremely heavy. If you want metal kit floats, I recommend Zeniths based on having seen a set under construction. I'll sell you my drawings for half of whatever Wag-Aero's selling theirs for, if you want to look at them. -- John Kimmel GET YER STINKING PAWS OFF ME YOU DAMN DIRTY APE! |
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John P Kimmel wrote in
: Fortunat1 wrote: Anyone have experience with these? Wag Aero are selling plans for these still. Anyone know of their history? were they always a homebuilt design? Are they compartmentalised like Edos? Performance? ease of building, expense? TIA! F1 I have the drawings, they have water tight compartments. They are built a lot like Edos or Wiplines or PeeKays, except whithout the fluted bottoms. They are definitely not for sheetmetal beginners. Ok, that's a bit discouraging since I've done very little riveting. They also look extremely heavy. Mm, don't want that either... If you want metal kit floats, I recommend Zeniths based on having seen a set under construction. I'll sell you my drawings for half of whatever Wag-Aero's selling theirs for, if you want to look at them. Well, I wanted to build them from scratch. Do no harm to look at the North Aire drawings to see what I might see. I'll drop you a line OK? |
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"Morgans" wrote in
: "Fortunat1" wrote Big enough, Junior Ace or Cub... Off the top of my head Wag Aero mentioned up to 1500.. I'm not too enthusiastic about wood floats and I would like to scratch build them as opposed to going for one of the (expensive) foam options or the even more expensive second hand edo option.. Why is it that you are not enthusiastic about wood floats? Something about using them, or building them? Well, I imagine that metal floats might be more maintenence free and easier to repair, not to mention more impervious to getting water logged. having said that, I don't know enough about either to make an informed decision there, but more than that I just want to try something in sheet metal, never having made more than cowlings and covers out of the stuff before.. |
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"Fortunat1" wrote Well, I imagine that metal floats might be more maintenence free and easier to repair, not to mention more impervious to getting water logged. having said that, I don't know enough about either to make an informed decision there, but more than that I just want to try something in sheet metal, never having made more than cowlings and covers out of the stuff before.. Understood... Although, metal corrodes, especially in sal****er. Wood does not. It also does not matter to wood one little bit if the water is salt or fresh. Wood boat has been done for many years. Epoxy coatings make wood practically immune to rot. Some also use wood as a core, and a very thin fiberglass coating inside and out to protect the wood. Some of the best looking and best performing homebuilts are built that way. You have to follow your own heart with a material choice, of course, but don't write off wood. I have never looked for wood float plans, and don't know how well they hold up, or how heavy they turn out. It does sound interesting, enough so that I may poke around a little, now that my interest has be peaked! g -- Jim in NC |
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On Mon, 5 Feb 2007 16:29:08 -0500, "Morgans"
wrote: "Fortunat1" wrote Well, I imagine that metal floats might be more maintenence free and easier to repair, not to mention more impervious to getting water logged. having said that, I don't know enough about either to make an informed decision there, but more than that I just want to try something in sheet metal, never having made more than cowlings and covers out of the stuff before.. Understood... Although, metal corrodes, especially in sal****er. Wood does not. It also does not matter to wood one little bit if the water is salt or fresh. Wood boat has been done for many years. Epoxy coatings make wood practically immune to rot. Some also use wood as a core, and a very thin fiberglass coating inside and out to protect the wood. Some of the best looking and best performing homebuilts are built that way. You have to follow your own heart with a material choice, of course, but don't write off wood. I have never looked for wood float plans, and don't know how well they hold up, or how heavy they turn out. It does sound interesting, enough so that I may poke around a little, now that my interest has be peaked! g I think that is piqued, engines peak |
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