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Written and designed by Joe Malinchack
Featured in the July 2014 issue of Model Aviation.
Last November, at the Horizon Indoor Electric Festival, I had a chance to test and sort out a few issues I was having with my Mini Vapor float design. The event’s indoor water runway is the perfect place to fly a lightweight floatplane model!
My original float design worked well for the Vapor, so I shrunk it to Mini Vapor size. However, I was having trouble getting the Mini Vapor to take off from the water.
The first thing that I tried was to…
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