Duck Seaplane-July 2024 …Affordable?

Affordability and seaplanes rarely go together. These aircraft get more complex and that translates to more money. Add inflation and the seaplane market has gotten, well… expensive. Seamax designer Miguel Rosario may have an answer as he prepared a seaplane variant for Brazil's Fly Fox company. Check out this first-flight video and go visit ByDanJohnson.com for more details and contact info.

[@rconger24]

I can imagine Phil Robertson leaning out with his 12 Gage.
That propeller blast looks intimidating. Does it have a windscreen for the fliers?

[@privatepilot4064]

I like the forward mounted engine!

[@AndrewBurbo-zw6pf]

the more things change the more they stay the same. it's a flightstar with floats. I am designing the same plane using affordaplane stye fuselage and wing construction.

[@RARenfield]

Icon A5 started out affordable.

[@CellCoachCom]

Cool!

[@donniewatson9120]

Tailwinds, except on takeoff.

[@DanJohnsonAffordableAviation]

😎👍🏼

[@yaghoubentesari3787]

Please let us have duck technical specifications
Thanks
I remain;
Jacob

[@DanFrederiksen]

Rather than tailwinds maybe wish good aerodynamics for everyone :)

[@DanJohnsonAffordableAviation]

I never knew I'd find a technique to see if people watch to the end. 👍🏼😎

[@DanFrederiksen]

@@DanJohnsonAffordableAviation I was quoted 83700€ for a new FM250 Vampire II factory assembled, good looking fast LSA, 912, analog. I've visited your site a couple of times over the years but never found insight into what are actually good deals. Shouldn't you have a chart with planes like the Vampire? like price vs speed that shames a VL3 and highlights a Vampire. If a Vampire is so much better a deal than the runaway 3-400k LSA prices, shouldn't everyone coming to your site know that as the first thing. Front and center. Not to mention all the poor fools building a kit at much greater cost if a Vampire is cheaper and better. And I only by chance know about the Vampire, the chart would show the landscape of prices.

[@cargopilot747]

It looks similar in configuration to the Catalina NG amphibian by FlySynthesis in Italy. This looks like a cheaper and less refined aircraft, though.

[@DanJohnsonAffordableAviation]

This is only a proof-of-concept aircraft. Let's see what the factory can put together.

[@mahmutbulut7637]

🥰😊👍👍👍👍👍

[@KlingbergWingMkII]

Well, one can draw a picture of anything.

[@AussieDazza]

You obviously didn’t watch the video .🙄

[@rconger24]

What have you drawn pictures of ?

[@felixaudet5860]

Any chance we see an electric version?