Labor Day weekend 2022, at the lake in Western MA, USA
I’ve been flying this rubber powered Fleet Model 2 biplane for about a year now, but it’s never managed a clean takeoff and landing on the water.
Until this past weekend.
This short video presents the key specifications of the model as well as the changes made for this flying session. Four successive ROLO flights (Rise Off Land On Water) were made and one is included in this video.
Plan for the model is available at www.thegeebee.com/fleet
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just fantastic!
Beautiful! Well done!
Very nice Tom, it's great to watch a master at play 🙂👍
Asa 40 year veteran of flying R/C, the ability of you free flighters to trim your models like this never ceases to amaze me! What a beautiful flight.
Epic! I didn't know it was possible!!
This is surreal! I can only wish a flight that great on terra firma! (still wishing) Well done TN2!!👍🏻
Wow never saw that before, so amazing.
Delicious wow that's so awesome 👍👍 thank you for sharing 💪💪💪💪
Absolutely stunning!
Outstanding Sir. Very nice job. Looks like good fishing as well. 😎
quite gratifying !… impressed it launched & landed in free flight fashion !!!… great job !!!
Masterpiece ! Smooth flyer
Beautifully built and perfectly trimmed——–you sir are a master!
BRAVO!
Prekrásne!
Jawdropping this one😮
You sure that wasn't rc plane?
Absolutely magnificent! What utter sensitivity you must be applying to your CG, and fixed control surfaces! I fly RC, and as well off-the-water, in the same approximate scale, with floats, and I have posted one of my only successful water T/O, and landings, here on YouTube.. it’s tricky, takes a whole lot of finesse, but then for the unmanned craft to do elegantly do so autonomously? Wow-man! Brilliant!!
Cheers,
Cpt. Loyal Tarbet
Very beautiful model! Many compliments!
Incredible! What a great job you did building it to fly that way! Way cool!
Absolutely magical.
row two full circles and smooth decent pontoon landing. WELL DONE!
Masterful
Always interested in free flight rubber powered planes. When I changed over to RC in days of reeds I was one up on trimming and it helped incredibly.AMA8855
Perfection!
Very impressive, well done.
Perfect flight trim!
beautiful model!
Wow 👌🏼 👏🏼
That mr. Was a realy nice plane and flight😊
Brilliant! That's how you do that.
Beautiful!
I really enjoyed that flight. NOT complaining with what I am about to comment. It would have been cool to see the complete/full release. I get it hard use 2 hands to manage the airplane and hold the camera with a third… lol.. Like I said. NOT complaining. I appreciate you capturing and posting this for other to see. Well done and thank you.
Proper aeromodelling. Fliers of fancy RC models and the like will always take their hats off to good free flight scale modelers.
Looks as if you fitted r/c in the rubber powered model!
Something very special about this.
Too Cool, Thanks.
Your aircraft had good endurance and very good landing "skills' .
lovely!
Holy cow that was cool!
Wow…That's like an RC aircraft…Amazed how long it flew
That was amazing!