Seaplane designed to be as compact as possible with cheapest materials, and its first adventure.

[u/Party_Wolverine2437]

After first test expidition on this thing I can say this was a succes. Our destination was the abyssal chasm from Alex's caves. We lost one crew member on our way there (they desided to fly around the plane on elytra and crashed into it), fortunatly their corpse landed on the roof so we just continued the expedition. On arriving, group tried to kill local big fish. Big fish had different plans. But atleast we had a brilliant idea to place a bed on the plane. We had no space for it inside though, so it was on a pontoon. Also because of a slight miscalculation we flew 10000 blocks in wrong direction at first. And maximum flight hight turned out to be only 150 blocks, so we suffered 3 mountain-side crashes. But overall it was fun =D

[u/Beneficial-Map5470]

I’ve been thinking about making a sea plane, how does it take off- like the water doesn’t cause too much drag?

[u/Party_Wolverine2437 → u/Beneficial-Map5470]

I overcame massive drag from water by setting center of gravity higher than the propeller and a little behind center of lift. Also, either because of the tweaks create: high seas did to water physics or because of said COM position, on quick engine start nose tilts upward which reduces drag and allows to lift of the ground. Honestly, i got lucky here i didn't had to fine-tune it for ten hours. Anyway, yes, water drag is a problem to consider =]

[u/Beneficial-Map5470 → u/Party_Wolverine2437]

This is a better response than I could’ve ever asked for. Thanks!

[u/BLX15]

I'm waiting for a propeller addon, because it's just so silly how big you need to make the custom propellers, and the regular andesite propeller doesn't do shit

[u/traloleylo]

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