Rubber Powered Fleet Biplane Water Takeoff 

Asa 40 year veteran of flying R/C, the ability of you free flighters to trim your models like this never ceases to amaze me! What a beautiful flight.

Fantastic flight and I especially enjoyed the seamlessly smooth landing.

how in the heck is this one of the best balsa plane videos i've ever seen? amazing model, amazing flight

Best fly ever!!!

Woo Hoo. Wow, that looks great Tom! Fleet Float Flying on Rails.

that was a SWEET flight friend!!

Pretty dang cool,dude 🤩

Gorgeous landing! Just a beautiful flyer!

Very beautiful, both the models and the flight.

Oh gosh! Lovely. My dad recovered/restored a Fleet model 1 w a model two vertical or rudder, I've forgotten which in 1947. Warner powered. In February, the lakes were frozen solid. It was a severe winter. My dad and his friend, Roger Burch, went to the wonder bread factory and loaded up with bread. They stuck Roger in the front cockpit and surrounded him with bread. Then they flew over the lake and bombed it with bread. He said you could see the ducks converging on the bread. February open cockpit can only be imagined. Side note: my dad said he made the hardest landing ever when he flared and the stick did not make it fully aft. Squashed bread loaf was the culprit. I was born in the '50's. I know what freedom feels like. We're not there!!!

Awesome. Gee it’s quiet there!!

Absolutely lovely. I couldn't have flown that well back in the days when I flew R/C planes! I had to look where you were from when I saw both Canadian and Australian registrations on the planes (I'm Australian).

I really enjoyed that flight. NOT complaining with what I am about to comment. It would have been cool to see the complete/full release. I get it hard use 2 hands to manage the airplane and hold the camera with a third... lol.. Like I said. NOT complaining. I appreciate you capturing and posting this for other to see. Well done and thank you.

Proper aeromodelling. Fliers of fancy RC models and the like will always take their hats off to good free flight scale modelers.

Something very special about this.

just discovering free flight . did not know it still existed . congrats on your work !

What a great flight and landing....

Really impressive, I struggle to get anything to stay in the air more than a couple of seconds and you get a water take-off and perfect water landing!

Absolutely magnificent! What utter sensitivity you must be applying to your CG, and fixed control surfaces! I fly RC, and as well off-the-water, in the same approximate scale, with floats, and I have posted one of my only successful water T/O, and landings, here on RU-vid.. it’s tricky, takes a whole lot of finesse, but then for the unmanned craft to do elegantly do so autonomously? Wow-man! Brilliant!! Cheers, Cpt. Loyal Tarbet

Fabulous aircraft and flight! thanks for taking the time to make this video

Amazing and wonderful!!!

gorgeous

Well done. I thoroughly enjoyed this.

Beautifully built and perfectly trimmed--------you sir are a master!

Awesome. It flies so well!

Your aircraft had good endurance and very good landing "skills' .

Wonderful! This one didn't seem encumbered at all by the floats. Smooth and elegant flight and landing. Lovely! 🌟🌟👍

Quite amazing that no additional vertical fin area was required.

Wow its perfect sir!.. This plane take-off and landing in the water.. WOW👍😃😃

Terrific, T!

that is lovely....awesome landing.

Perfect flight trim!

This flight is wonderful.

Delicious wow that's so awesome 👍👍 thank you for sharing 💪💪💪💪

row two full circles and smooth decent pontoon landing. WELL DONE!

Wow never saw that before, so amazing.

Very impressive, well done.

Simply beautiful!

Beautiful! Thanks for posting this!

Amazing flyer!

Just Fantastic.! You sir, are one of the best.!Beautiful flight, could not be bettered.

That mr. Was a realy nice plane and flight😊

beautiful model!

Masterpiece ! Smooth flyer

Nothing is too wonderful to be true -M. Faraday. This is on my bucket list to see in person if not try myself... maybe a second attempt at a "phantom splash", my 1st atempt was more like a "phantom flush"! Thanks sooo much for this vid.

Beautifully flight.

Absolutely magical.

Amazing!!

quite gratifying !... impressed it launched & landed in free flight fashion !!!... great job !!!

Exquisite almost surreal silent flight to a perfect landing. Well done.

Very beautiful model! Many compliments!

Epic! I didn't know it was possible!!

Beautiful! Well done!

Incredible! What a great job you did building it to fly that way! Way cool!

Outstanding Sir. Very nice job. Looks like good fishing as well. 😎

Brilliant! That's how you do that.

Very nice Tom, it's great to watch a master at play 🙂👍

Super cool

Beautiful!

that was pretty amazing!

That was amazing!

just fantastic!

Wow...That's like an RC aircraft...Amazed how long it flew

Excellent!!!

Holy cow that was cool!

Jawdropping this one😮

Superb

lovely!

Prekrásne!

Perfection!

BLOODY BRILIANT

Bloody good !

Wow! Just wow...

Too Cool, Thanks.

This is surreal! I can only wish a flight that great on terra firma! (still wishing) Well done TN2!!👍🏻

Masterful

BRAVO!

That was @#$%

Looks as if you fitted r/c in the rubber powered model!

How do you get it back ? 😄

wow

Wow 👌🏼 👏🏼

freeflight is ballsy defined. Freeflight from/above water is just..

Он прекрасен!)

You sure that wasn't rc plane?

ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo yeeeaaahh

Poétique...😊

Always interested in free flight rubber powered planes. When I changed over to RC in days of reeds I was one up on trimming and it helped incredibly.AMA8855

Absolutely stunning!