Absolutely gorgeous! I have been a big Catalina fan for many years. If I had ever had the means to learn to fly and own any plane I wanted, I think it might have been a PBY! The sound of this RC model is fantastic, too, with its 3-cylinder radials. Although I can appreciate the advantages of the electrics in wide use, I really think the manufacturers need to come up with a chip and speaker system that puts out the appropriate big inline, v-12, or radial engine sound the real aircraft had/has. Even as far as reproducing the sporadic coughing of a big radial first coming to life! If any company wants to take this idea and run with it, you’re welcome to it!
This was the first water launch of the model. The fact that the nose went down was due to the pilot who simply gave too much throttle during the first attempts. ;-)
I wish that the model engine makers would make right hand engines so we could get the simplicity and safety of counter rotating props. It was plane to see (pun intended) that even with full right rudder, it was wanting to pull hard left. My large scale A-26 suffers with the same problem.Not enough rudder authority at slow speed and high power.
Yep … breaking that water barrier isn’t easy. it needs raw power. When the Seaborne seaplane lands and takes off where I live, I can hear the sound from several miles away. There is literally a two second delay from seeing it and hearing it for me. Bucket list? Fly in a seaplane from St. Thomas to St. Croix? 🗽📣
I suspect that during the water tests, Catalina collected water into the fuselage, during takeoff, the water moved to the tail of the fuselage, after which the hangover with the transition to a stall on the wing - corkscrew. The model is very beautiful respect to the author! With best wishes for further creativity!
Only watched part of it. Great model, but the crappy music ruined the sound. If you must have musak, keep it in the background so we can hear those engines sing.
Wie hast du die Motoren synchronisiert? Konnte eine alte DC3 mit 2 OS glow übernehmen aber habe leider keine Ahnung wie ich die Motoren so hinkriege das sie immer gleich viel Schub leisten.
I remember the hangers and ramps on the local Naval base that housed these. I can't recall them flying, I do remember the Naval blimps being phased out, flying over head.
Yes, I indeed built a second Catalina with carbon combs composite fuselage (vacuum processed) and shaved off 5 kg: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dpzwDOaHb8A.html
Подозреваю что при водных испытаниях Каталина набрала воды в фюзеляж, при взлёте вода переместилась в хвостовую часть фюзеляжа, после чего зависание с переходом в срыв на крыло - штопор. Модель очень красивая респект автору! С наилучшими пожеланиями в дальнейшем творчестве!
Правильно! Во время первого полета в фюзеляж попало слишком много воды. В результате я переработал его и добился значительного улучшения: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-tY3VcutCuQU.html 🙂 Теперь у меня есть и другие пропеллеры для него, от которых я также ожидаю небольшого улучшения.
The electronics are well protected in the center section of the wing. So far iI haven't had any problems with anything getting wet. The airplane is mostly wood construction. After a few starts you notice that the wood has soaked up water. So I built a second Catalina in carbonfiber-amaritecomb-composite. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dpzwDOaHb8A.html Next season is first water take off for it. 🙂 Also check out this: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-tY3VcutCuQU.html
Lovely model of an iconic amphibian...Like the wind speed you often see modellers flying in you cant scale it or, in this case the waves. If one were to scale the waves to the airplane it would probably being like trying to take off in a heavy swell of very large waves....A dead calm or very gentle breeze might be advantageous...
OMG i LOVE that aircraft always have ... it had one thing no other aircraft had .. it was made from the get go to shut down one of the 2 engines and still be able to fly well ..... i would LOVE a non powered display of this wish my hands didnt shake i would build one ... keep up the practice you will get the water thing down pat .. it does seem to be riding low in the water ... was it leaking by chance ?
Those tiny ripples in the water are scale equivilent to a two to three foot swell I would guess. I don't know what kind of conditions the full size Catalina could take, but anything more than a millpond is misery in a flying boat.
I recall reading that the pilots would pat down all the crew members to make sure that none of them had a lighter or book of matches in a stray pocket. These planes were essentially flying gas cans.
Nice plane and nice viceo, a shame I have to hear your choice of music over the engines, prefer silence so finally muted and missed any further engine sounds.. :(
I did not buy it, it is built from a wooden kit. For the Ms. Pickup, I constructed the fuselage myself in the original form and then built it in CFK composite construction on the basis of the 1/8th model.
you have to put a drone with a camera (be able to see it on an LCD screen) behind this model plane so that the pilot can better see the direction in which the model plane is going. this way you can more accurately control the flight of the model airplane.
nach dem theater am anfang, hab ich von dem wasserstart mehr erwartet. es erinnerte mich eher an ein u-boot das zu tauchen, als an ein flugboot das abzuheben versucht...
This was the first water launch of the model. The fact that the nose went down was due to the pilot who simply gave too much throttle during the first attempts. ;-) But this year, same model: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-tY3VcutCuQU.html
Beautiful model - great performance. For me, though, the repetitious, endless-loop music bed killed the mood. Why is it still deemed mandatory to stick a music track under virtually every video posted? Adds nothing, detracts much.
Well, that’s just spectacular. I have always loved the PBY and find this thrilling. It appears to my untrained eye that it rides very, very slightly down at the nose when in a slow taxi on the water. Is that the case?
This was the first water launch of the model. The fact that the nose went down was due to the pilot who simply gave too much throttle during the first attempts. ;-) But it's really an exceptional plane.
@@Unungulingi That makes sense since the center of thrust is so high an the airframe. Thanks for that insight; I do so wish I could have flown one. As to it being “exceptional”, that is clear.
