Not STUNT but cool C/L

[Ward Van Duzer]

W.

[Motorman]

Flying in water, uhg.

[Randy Ryan]

NOW for something a little different. Heck I'd like to try that!

[Mike Keville]

I like it.  Looks like fun.  Hmmm, perhaps I could.......(nah!)

[Brett Buck]

Flying in water, uhg.

    There's a girl in a swimsuit at a model airplane contest. As far as I am concerned that makes it a winner.

    Brett

[john e. holliday]

All I see is a blank page.   

[Randy Ryan]

I'm gonna build one, I can't help myself, I love this idea, would be so cool just to see Schneider Cup airplanes in a group.

[George]

NOW for something a little different. Heck I'd like to try that!

 

Randy,

I think the Jan 1959 MAN covered a "Schneider" event run by a model airplane club. I believe their pool was created by tarps over a form. That issue also had plans for a .15 size Supermarine S-6B, although if I remember correctly, it was powered by a K&B .09 green head. I think that plan is available from Outerzone. Who doesn't like an S-6B?  

George

[Paul Smith]

Look at those trophies!  Wow! they cost a fortune.

I see one of them had a TeeDee 15, fast, no doubt.

Try flying speed standing on mud or sand up to your knees in water.  I've never tried it.  I doubt I ever will.  Tough to find a lake where you could get away with that around here.  We dabbled with doing it from a raft once, but couldn't come up with a usable start/lauch place.

[wwwarbird]

 I stumbled across those videos a year or so ago, super cool models!

[Tom Niebuhr]

It wasn't a "Schneider", but a long time ago Vern Clements had a CL float plane called "Sure Fun".  (spelling?) It was a neat looking plane.

[Jared Hays]

Who gets to retrieve the plane went it lands on the deep end?!?!?  Pilot or pit crew 

[Robert Zambelli]

Speed!
I lived in Italy from 1961 until 1963 and flew some control line there.  Although there were some excellent stunt flyers, the true passion was speed. The engines of choice were, as I recall, Super Tiger and Rossi.
One fellow had a model of the fastest seaplane ever built, the Macchi-Castoldi 72. It was fitted with two Rossi 15s, each driving a separate propeller, counter rotating. I'm not sure he ever flew it when I lived there but I think I saw it (or one like it) in the video.
If it goes fast, the Italians usually had something to do with it!
On land, speed was defined by cars like the ALFA Romeo, Maserati and Ferrari.
In the air, the MC 72, which flew in 1934, set a speed record for the fastest piston powered plane ever flown. I believe the record stood until the mid 2000s when broken by Rare Bear. As far as I know, the Macchi still holds the record as the fastest seaplane ever flown - 440 MPH average.
It was powered by two FIAT V-12s driving counter-rotating propellers.
Truly an engineering masterpiece!
Bob Z.