Water aircraft? anyone want?

[Natovr]

I've decided, while i've got nothing to do, I can just as well model an aircraft ^_^ I think water aircraft are pretty cool, and since we don't have many of them, who has a suggestion for a water aircraft I could design?

[technobill]

Definitely the SC Seahawk. Its a carrier deployed seaplane used in World War Two.

[V8Valle]

A little list which seaplanes I'd like to see

- the flying wood shoe, Blohm & Voss Bv 138!
- Dornier Do 24 T & ATT
- Spitfire with floats (yup, they existed)
- Short Sunderland

[Natovr]

I think the spitfire with floats would be easiest :p since the the spitfire is already there, and for a beginner like me, even adding floats is hard. I'll do one of the others if I'm done with the spitfire quickly

[Guillaume]

Is it a Spitfire or the S-6B, its "father"?
I don't see any Spitfire with floats on Wikipédia.

[stuart]

If you're looking for something easy to add floats to, how about the c172 or j3cub?

In fact, the c182 is pretty similar to a c180, which definately can have floats.

However, I don't recall if JSBSim supports floats or not.

-Stuart

[MaverickAlex]

it was the supermarine spitfire that had the floatrs and they were binned fairly quickly because the merlin engine was too powerful.

Alex

[Natovr]

i'll make a dream jet with floats

[draco5]

I'd like you to find a still frame of that star wars water craft, from.... attack of the clones? i think...
or some sort of jet, maybe a floating LEAR jet design,
if you could, a futuristic type!

[P]

I'd like you to find a still frame of that star wars water craft, from.... attack of the clones? i think...
or some sort of jet, maybe a floating LEAR jet design,
if you could, a futuristic type!

Wow that was amazing aircraft

[Natovr]

I'll try ^_^

should I try business or fighter?

I havent watched starwars that much... which one are you talking about? i only know that HUGE deathstar thing and the tiny round attack things with 2 pointy edges at the front

[Natovr]

I've modelled the float so far, I'll go onto the aircraft if i know what to do ^_^ i want to do a fighter jet, but you guys might like a business jet more... but it's fiction :p

ive got it sorta visualised. If it's a fighter, it will have a single large float with 2 small ones on each side for balance. If it's a "learjet" type aircraft (business) it will have basically 3 floats where gears would normally be.

EDIT: I'm a beginner, so once I've released it, you can modify it all you guys want, since it will probably look abnormal/ugly/incomplete

[Natovr]

Since nobody posted, I'll start on the fighter. I'm not sure how air would behave around it though. It's a basic triangle jet, but with another triangle wing suspended above the bottom one (like a bi-plane, if you will). I'm not sure how air will behave in the gap, but only time will tell :p

PS: how would I go about making the triangle wing? the "Follow Me" tool in Sketchup isnt helping much.

[Natovr]

wow, nobody's saying anything

This kinda turned into an experiment for me... I've made 2 wings outta 4, and I'm trying to get the airfoil just right so it can be experimented right. I'll use DATCOM for the FDM so I can test it
http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r4/n ... gthing.png

I've learnt alot about sketchup while making this :p this is my first real model I've made.
any tips? ideas?

It won't have a back rudder. That thing at the side of the wing will be one of the rudders.

This might take a month or 2, since what I want to do doesn't even exist :p I'm changing my mind the whole time

EDIT: seems like I'm doing this for myself.

[davidevirgilio]

Yes!

I've asked many week ago for CL-415.

Thank you in advance.