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Posted By:
Hal Brown
Date Posted:
Apr 26, 2007
Description:
This SeaWind was at the 'big' seaplane splash-in on Thursday, the 19th. The left wingtip was well down in the water, even though the passenger was standing in the right side of the cockpit. If it had been a SeaRey, the left float would have been out of the water. This SeaWind apparently has aux fuel tanks in the wingtips, and someone told me that the main tank has no vent of its own and drains into whichever wingtip tank happens to be low. The same person remarked that wing floats ought to be flat on the bottom, to bounce if they hit the water when taxiing on the step.
Date Taken:
Apr 26, 2007
Place Taken:
Lake Parker, FL
Owner:
Don Maxwell
File Name:
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Category:
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Kenneth Leonard - Apr 26,2007
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Don - I've also read (long ago) that the kit maker had shipped wings with as much as 25 lbs difference in weight between the two wings. I have looked at and read about these planes for years and would not fly in one. The manufacturer has been claiming for years that it would have a certified version soon. Supposedly they got some sort of certification this year but I'll bet these never get beyond being hand-built, individually certified planes.
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Dennis Scearce - Apr 26,2007
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I talked to the factory rep at SnF about certification. They had the plane there they were using, with the on board computer, all the monitoring devices and the drag chute. He said the certification was 'going well' and that they had stopped concentrating on kits. Said 30 were flying and had orders for 90 certified models. He also said that the test pilot 'could not get it to spin'.<br />One of these just crashed a couple of weeks ago in Danville, VA. Non instrument pilot was flying IFR and missed the approach to KDAN. Made right turnout, got into some kind of dive or spin, shed a wing, crashed and burned. FBO owner up there said the pilot's body had a clean cut through the trunk of his body from the prop.
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Ed Irizarry - Apr 27,2007
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Lots of $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ and one of the worst boats I seen. Flyes great.
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Chris Vernon-Jarvis - Apr 27,2007
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It was such a radical and elegant idea for a new paradigm in seaplanes but I think some of the drawbacks and compromises are probably too much. We really need new ideas to be out there and to be tried (just so long as we don't have to fly them,) so that eventually an aircraft that really changes the model will, over time, improve the speed/power/handling to something near the regular aircraft. Then maybe we'll see the long promised renaissance of seaplanes.
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