Catalina Seaplane 4-Channel RC Airplane Model

Specifications:

• Color: Blue & Yellow
• Flight Duration Time: 10min
• Material: EPS Fom
• Fuselage Length: 88cm/34.6in
• Wingspan: 138cm/54.3in
• Radio Control Range: 500m/1640.4ft
• Ultimate Flying Height: 300m/984.2ft
• Motor: 2 x Brush Motors (Gear Ratio: 1:5.33, 1080 propeller)
• Rudder Servo: 4 x 9g
• Electric Speed Controller: 1 x 40A
• Battery Type: 8.4V 1000mAh Li-MH Battery

 Features:

• 4 channel full function radio controlled (Aileron, Elevator, Rudder, and Throttle)
• The 8.4V 1000mAh battery provides up to 10 minutes flight time
• The transmitter with up to 500m/1640ft transmission distance, the electric RC airplanes fly altitude up to 300m/984ft
• The RC model airplanes can take off from water or hand launched
• The rudder helps steer the radio controlled model airplanes on water
• Super tough, light-weight EPS airframe
• Perfect appearance and emulation (Scale appearance, great attention has been give to detail)
• Shock resistant reinforced fuselage and strong wings
• Water take-off can be performed easily
• Huge wing size, excellent flight performance
• The electric RC airplanes fuselage with pre-installed electronics, motors, servos, speed controller and receiver
• The electric RC airplanes are excellent stability and aerobatic capability
• Complete kit, ready to fly, easy to assemble

Details:

• Vivid Catalina seaplane shape and sound bring you more fun
• Complete kit, ready to fly, easy to assemble 

• Twin engines design generates enough lift power for your airplane

• This seaplane can hand launched and take-off on the water

Size in Detail:

• Huge wing size, excellent flight performance

• Catalina 4CH electric RC airplane take-off from the surface of the water
• Flying in the sky

• Landing on the surface of water 

RC Airplanes Games:

• Playing RC airplanes games are a good, fun activity to undertake at the flying field, but they do need to be played with a certain amount of care and responsibility
• There are several games you can play; this page shows you the popular ones. If there's a crowd of you at the flying field, you can make these games into a friendly competition-not only will they be fun but they'll also increase your flying skills as a competent RC pilot! The RC airplane games shown here is Limbo Flying, Spot Landing, Follow the leader (or Pursuit) and Bust the Balloon. All 3 games need a few extras to get set up with, but the games are pretty self-explanatory

RC Airplane Game: Limbo Flying

• This limbo flying game involves setting up a limo bar, under which you attempt a low-level pass. It's a fairly basic set-up, but try and use light weight plastic or bamboo canes for the frame- metal ones will do damage to an off-target airplane
• Don't make the bar too low to begin with, and keep it as wide as possible. As you get better at flying underneath the bar, lower it but keep the width constant-unless you are felling really confident

RC Airplane Game: Spot Landing

      

• This spot landing game is a true test of skill! Using a brightly colored tape or ribbon, lay out three concentric circles within your usual landing area. Make the outer circle fairly large, say 10ft. in diameter, then lay out the other two within this one, say at 6ft. and 3ft. diameters
• Allocate a set number of points to each circle eg 5 for landing within the 10′ one, 15 for landing within the 6′ one and 25 for landing within the 3′one. Let each pilot have one practice landing, then 3 landings counting the score from each. The score is taken from whichever circle the wheels touch down in first

RC Airplane Game: Follow the Leader

      

• This 'follow the leader' RC airplane game, also called pursuit, take at least two RC airplanes; the more the merrier, but too many gets a bit hectic
• Tie a good length (say, 15ft.) of a crepe-paper type material to the rear end of one of the airplanes. Yep, you guessed it, this is the leader
• Let the leader take off safely, then the other pilots have to fly their models after the lead, trying to cut the streamer with their propellers! This isn't as easy as it might sound, but if you are that good and you catch the streamer regularly, don't let it get too short. Let the leader land and replace it with another long length

RC Airplane Game: Burst the Balloon
      
       

• This is just a variation on the above game, but balloons are tied to the leader plane instead of ribbon. As with 'follow the leader', let the lead airplane take off and have the other planes chase it around the sky, trying to burst the balloons with their props
• So there you have for simple-but-fun RC airplane games with which to hone your skills. If you are playing these in a public area, remember where you are! Don't become so absorbed with playing the games that you forget about safety issues

Tips of the RC airplane:

• Understanding your RC airplane controls, or indeed the controls of any RC model, is very important for you to do some homework. It can help save more money from crash and enjoy the fullest fun of your models. Always take a bit of time to understand how your new RC airplane, helicopter or vehicle is operating; you'll get much more out of the hobby than just moving the transmitter sticks and watching the model change direction

The airplane control surface:

• For an airplane to be controllable, control surfaces are necessary. The 4 main surfaces are ailerons, elevator, rudder and flaps as shown below:

• When the airplane is on forward flight it will rotate around each axis (axis - the blue dashed lines in the picture above) when movement to any control surface is made by the pilot. The table below shows the appropriate actions   

• The following sections explain how each control surface affects the airplane

Ailerons:

       

• Located on the trailing edge (rear) of the wing, the ailerons control the airplane's roll about its longitudinal axis. Each aileron moves at the same time but in opposite directions For example when the left aileron moves up, the right aileron moves down and vice versa
• This movement causes a slight decrease in lift on the wingtip with the upward moving aileron, while the opposite wingtip experiences a slight increase in lift. Because of this subtle change in lift, the airplane is forced to roll in the appropriate direction ie when the pilot moves the stick left, the left aileron will rise and the airplane will roll left in response to the change in lift on each wing
• The ailerons are controlled by a left/right movement of the control stick, or 'yoke'

Rudder:

• The rudder is located on the back edge of the vertical stabilizer, or fin, and is controlled by 2 pedals at the pilot's feet. When you push the left pedal, the rudders move to the left. The air flowing over the fin now pushes harder against the left side of the rudder, forcing the nose of the airplane to yaw round to the left

Elevators:

• The elevators are located on the rear half of the tail plane, or horizontal stabilizer. Like the ailerons, they cause a subtle change in lift when movement is applied which raises or lowers the tail surface accordingly. In addition, air hitting deflected elevators does so in the same way as it hits the rudder with exaggerated effect that forces the airplane to tilt upwards or downwards
• Moving the elevator up (pulling back on the yoke) will cause the airplane to pitch its nose up and climb, while moving them down (pushing forward on the yoke) will cause the airplane to pitch the nose down and dive. Elevators are linked directly to each other, so work in unison unlike ailerons

Flaps:

• Flaps are located on the trailing edge of each wing, between the fuselage and the ailerons, and extend outward and downward from the wing when put into use
• The purpose of the flaps is to generate more lift at slower airspeed, which enables the airplane to fly at a greatly reduced speed with a lower risk of stalling. When extend further flaps also generate more drag which slows the airplane down much faster than just reducing throttle power
• Although the risk of stalling is always present, an airplane has to be flying very slowly to stall when flaps are in use at, for example, 10 degrees deflection
• So all these factors are why and how airplanes fly. Radio control model airplanes can of course be simpler - for example, just have rudder and elevator control or perhaps just rudder and motor control. But the same fundamental principles always apply to all airplanes, regardless of size, shape and design

Package Included:

• 1 x RC Airplane Model
• 1 x Remote Control
• 1 x Battery
• 1 x Charger
• 2 x 1080 Blades
• 1 x A Set of Stickers
• 1 x A Set of Accessories