[gbanger]

You know they say "if you cant beat em join em", so with that in mind I looked back at the last 12 months and the non existant flying caused by wet weather.
So I though STUFF IT! and bought this.
Was hoping to get the maiden in this morning and drove in to work where I am planning flying the big sucker, you see, I have the largest expanse of Parramatta river 20 meters from my workshop., but it was windy and was chopping up the water to much for a maiden, so will try during the week.
I am very impressed with the quality of the construction. It has that super smooth almost waxy look on the foam. Buy the way, it is a HK (Large Amphibious aircraft) correct name is the Icon A5 and has a 1800mm wing span. It comes with a 6S 400kv motor and has massive wings so Im pretty excited about getting the big fat cute sucker aloft.
It comes amphibious with retracts but I ripped em out and bined em, so now mine is a seaplane.
I will be flying on 3000 6S 20C batts. Running a 12x6 prop through a Turnigy plush 80 amp speedie.
I purchased an extra 2 servos and installed the optional flaps, It certainly wont need them for landing but I think they will help break the water drag during take off.
Wont know till I fly it but I recon it would make a great FPV platform.