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Posted By:
Hal Brown
Date Posted:
Jul 24, 2010
Description:
After circumnavigating storms, N506LP arrived mostly intact at Oshkosh. It was not the first seaplane or SeaRey to arrive. That honor was reserved for a Texas SeaRey.
Date Taken:
Jul 24, 2010
Place Taken:
Vette Seaplane Base, WI
Owner:
Dan Nickens
File Name:
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Category:
432, Oshkosh 2010
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Read what others had to say:
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Eric Batterman - Jul 24,2010
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Mostly intact?
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Dan Nickens - Jul 24,2010
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Yeah. I had to bust a brake line to avoid being landing on by a DC-3. Other than that (and the squawk list), it's all together.
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Kenneth Leonard - Jul 24,2010
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I'm guessing this is an LSX? Wups - I wrote a long list of things I thought were different then realized this is SND not Tech. Pretty plane!
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Matt Tucciarone - Jul 27,2010
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Don,<br />This is what you need to build at your dock.
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Don Maxwell - Jul 27,2010
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I'm on it, Matt, except that the OSH docks aren't really SeaRey/Aventura friendly because they're too high and can interfere with the landing gear.
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Jack Peters - Jul 30,2010
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Love that Dock
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Troy iRMT Heavy Maint. Enriquez - Jul 30,2010
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yeah, me too I'm gonna do one like that also. thanks Dan.
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Don Maxwell - Jul 31,2010
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It's pretty good, Jack, but it floats just a little too high for the landing gear to fit comfortably above the deck. If there were any wave action at all in the lagoon, the gear would get whacked good and hard. Another way to solve that problem would be to make the U shallower, so that the SeaRey couldn't get in far enough for the gear to touch the dock at all.
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Frank A. Carr - Jul 31,2010
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Docking with the gear down is not advisable?
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Thomas Alexander Bowden - Jul 31,2010
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If you had a choice of a ramp and dry land to park or a properly designed dock to tie up to. Which would you pick?
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Eric Batterman - Jul 31,2010
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Ramp every time.
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Don Maxwell - Aug 01,2010
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Ramp! It's so cool when a SeaRey makes that transition from boat to car and back.
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Dave Edward - Aug 02,2010
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Ramp for sure. Avoid boat wake damage as well as grunge attaching itself to your moored / docked hull.<br /><br />Don...Jet Float now makes a smaller...in height..flotation cube. Check out their web site.
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Don Maxwell - Aug 02,2010
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Thanks, Dave. Whatever I use, it'll be self-propelled--because it's easier to pay $6 a year for a boat license than to get permission for a floating dock here in water that feeds the dying Chesapeake Bay. Anyway, there's the beach and a ramp I'm working on to get up into the yard.
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Daniel Paul Myers - Jul 31,2010
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The ramp...no brainer...
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Gene Hammond - Aug 08,2010
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Dan,<br /><br />The dock is intended for any boat, not jut Seareys,hece the hurridly manufactured design. The heigth is determined by barrels beneath which sink further when the weight of a person(s) is on them. This lessens the gear problem somewhat, but not totally. I work this dock at OSH and have contemplated widening it to accomodate SeaBees, Lakes, etc and adding a 'movable platform' so the pilot, et al, can depart the a/c more comfortably.<br /><br />Gene
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Don Maxwell - Aug 08,2010
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Gene, I didn't mean to complain about that dock. It worked well each time you've brought me into it--better than any other dock I've ever used. <br /><br />For a SeaRey, the opening is wider than necessary for the hull, but narrow enough to make getting in and out fairly easy. It would be better if the deck were about six inches lower, at least at the open end, beneath the gear legs. One other improvement would be to lengthen the sides of the U to make it possible to walk back and check the engine before starting it up.<br /><br />If you want to widen it enough for a SeaBee, then maybe you could figure out some way to attach sliding plywood panels on the sides of the U that can be slid close to narrower airplanes.<br /><br />In fact, that might take care of the SeaRey landing gear problem. Make the sides of the U about twice as long for access to the engine and wide enough to accomodate a SeaBee (or even a larger flying boat), and then slide movable deck panels in close to the fuselage where people get in and out, but not where they would interfere with something on the airplane--a SeaRey's landing gear or something else on another airplane.
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