digitize a plan for aircraft floats and cnc cut it

[stan kern]

video #1 :going to show tracing out 15,5 foot float for an aircraft
and cnc cutting the parts

https://stankern.vids.io/videos/d39e...and-cnc-cut-it


video #2 : going to show taking all the parts cut form video #1
and assemble the 15.5 foot float

https://stankern.vids.io/videos/709e...t-and-assemble

[David Buchhauser]

Stan - that looks like a lot of work! Nice job on your presentation. What did you skin the frame of the floats with?
David

[stan kern]

1/8 inch plywood and fiberglass

[David Buchhauser]

Please share some photos once you get them painted and installed onto the aircraft.
Thanks,
David

[stan kern]

I don't think it will go that far

[Maurice Mcmurry]

That was fun to watch! Most of the discussion related to CNC is over my head. The video is a big help in starting to see what's involved. Nicely done!

[stan kern]

I have done boats before so this is something a bit different

https://stankern.vids.io/videos/d39d...duck-boat-plan this was interesting also

[Maurice Mcmurry]

The duck boat is neat too. I have read that some boats like that were made to be sunk at low tide in the Chesapeake estuary and the duck hunter would hike out to the boat, bail it out, get in and wait for the tide to come in along with the dusks. I am still not sure how that works, It sounds like a muddy affair.

[David Buchhauser]

I don't think it will go that far

Were you just doing these for practice then, and not to be actually installed onto an aircraft?
David

[stan kern]

I was tired of doing boats so i always had my eye on an aircraft float (like the design in frames) so i found this one and i thought it would
make a catamaran (2 floats bolted together) but turned out it sits at an angle on the water, my neigbour is looking into what can be done.
Aircraft floats today are all aluminum float kits, and it was not like that when i was a teenager.
it was a good project with and we'll see where is goes next (in the later spring)

[David Buchhauser]

I was tired of doing boats so i always had my eye on an aircraft float (like the design in frames) so i found this one and i thought it would
make a catamaran (2 floats bolted together) but turned out it sits at an angle on the water, my neigbour is looking into what can be done.
Aircraft floats today are all aluminum float kits, and it was not like that when i was a teenager.
it was a good project with and we'll see where is goes next (in the later spring)

Thanks for the update Stan! It was still a fun job to do and turned out great.
David

[Maurice Mcmurry]

I wonder what the hull speed of those would be? When planes take off they appear to hydro plane at a fairly slow speed. Certainly the lift of the plane figures in.

[stan kern]

I enjoy these large projects, when i was a teenage i built balsa airplanes ...frames and tissue, when its in frames it looks cools
I had built a 14foot wingspan glider , the fuselage was amazing and strong. It took 2 bike to launch if from the church school playground
eventually it never came back (too windy)
i am always on the hunt for a large project to draw and digitize

[Keith Outten]

Stan, did you ever complete the little hydroplane you started?

[Adam Herman]

a bit of ballast in the bottom may make them a lot more stable, looking at the shape and weight distribution.