Things to do when you can't ride.

Sun Apr 29, 2007 11:49 pm

As most of you know i'm halfway through doing a 3 month license suspension (lucky me, but lets not go there). Anyway i half assedly started up a project of making an airboat before i was suspended. Anyway the project has started to come to fruition, with the first obstacle of cutting a shitload of plywood 90% completed, just making things fit perfectly remains, and skinning it too.

Here's what i've got so far, it measures 54x28cm (21.5x11inches for the old farts) weighs 610 grams (1lb 6 oz) and its just the formwork slotted together without any glue in there.

Motor is going to be a new OS .26 (3.5cc) motor and hopefully a helluva lot of fun once i've gotten it sorted out.

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Mon Apr 30, 2007 8:56 am

Um - scuse the ignorance - but what's an airboat?
You working off plans or design yourself?
ty

Mon Apr 30, 2007 1:48 pm

Yeah...whats it do?

Mon Apr 30, 2007 1:54 pm

can you fish from it ? Glen was after a boat ! ;-)

Mon Apr 30, 2007 2:22 pm

oooh. That almost makes me want to see if there are any WiG boat kits available.

Certainly get weird looks from people rocking up with an Ekranoplan model instead of a boat...

Mon Apr 30, 2007 3:27 pm

mfzx6r wrote:can you fish from it ? Glen was after a boat !

But will it look like this when it's finished?

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Mon Apr 30, 2007 3:40 pm

goddam thats huge glen, you need a 4wd so it looks in proportion!

Mon Apr 30, 2007 4:20 pm

ty wrote:Um - scuse the ignorance - but what's an airboat?
You working off plans or design yourself?
ty

Think of a swamp boat, basicly a flat bottomed boat with a BIG motor and propellar on the back to drive the boat instead of a small prop under the water, and noisy as hell..

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Mon Apr 30, 2007 7:13 pm

frl0173 wrote:
ty wrote:Um - scuse the ignorance - but what's an airboat?
You working off plans or design yourself?
ty

Think of a swamp boat, basicly a flat bottomed boat with a BIG motor and propellar on the back to drive the boat instead of a small prop under the water, and noisy as hell..

that doesnt look like much of a fishing boat...

Mon Apr 30, 2007 7:50 pm

so on & so forth.

http://rcairboats.net/

Mon Apr 30, 2007 7:56 pm

that could be fun, but it looks pretty small...what is it ?? a boat for ants??

Mon Apr 30, 2007 8:00 pm

its something to sink a couple hundred buck into and crash spectacularly into an embankment in order to destroy the r/c running gear, the frame and the engine.

simply something "for the hell of it"

Mon Apr 30, 2007 8:05 pm

Good to see Mike

Mon Apr 30, 2007 8:08 pm

that looks pretty cool Mike.........

Mon Apr 30, 2007 8:21 pm

Neka79 wrote:
frl0173 wrote:
ty wrote:Um - scuse the ignorance - but what's an airboat?
You working off plans or design yourself?
ty

Think of a swamp boat, basicly a flat bottomed boat with a BIG motor and propellar on the back to drive the boat instead of a small prop under the water, and noisy as hell..

that doesnt look like much of a fishing boat...

Depends on what your fishing now doesn't it. They tend to go 'gator fishing' in the southern states of the US.