Lanier Seabird ARF

I built and flew one way back in the early 70's when they were still kitted by Dubro. The Lanier version is pretty much the same, as I believe they bought the tooling from Dubro.

Was a reasonably easy build and flew pretty well too.

Randy Roman Lilburn, GA

I have one also, though its still in box , I heard going for the highest engine size is the way to go, as this thing looks heavy, box says from .46 to . 60 , so I plan on a .60 , also the Ruby Goldberg contraption for throttle , will be altered by simply putting a micro or small servo behind fuel tank in pod , other than that it should be fine, ( don't fly it in winter as a ski plane, I heard the ABS plastic becomes brittle in the cold, ) I'm sure there's other tips out there to improve this plane, as I read awhile back that some say it flies squirrly , so do a good web search!!!

Mine was powered with an Enya 60-III (good engine back then). It was squirelly on take-off... easy to catch a tip float and "spin out". Once that happened and ripped off the tip float which sank before I could get there with the retrieval boat :-)

I flew one with a Saito .80 & 11-10 prop, didn't have room for a 12". Fast & squirrelly in the air, got off the water well. I used a micro servo for throttle, mounted crosswise behind the tank. Those dinky plastic tip floats are a joke; knocked one off on the first landing. I built some wide foam floats sandwiched around 1/8" aircraft ply & mounted on the stock struts. Those worked well.

Don't use the splash guards glued to the bow. They just act as levers to split the fuse on a hard landing. That's what happened to mine. If I built another, I'd fill the front of the fuse with expanding foam to beef it up a bit.

CR

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