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The Great Seaplane Challenge (RESULTS)

292k WinsWings  7 months ago

The Great Seaplane Challenge Results

Visit the entry page: https://www.simpleplanes.com/a/ifb33R/Seaplane-Challenge-2-2024-CLOSED

I have been testing the planes since last week. There were 48 entries, and this seaplane challenge was very tight; the outcomes were incredible. I saw these beautiful builds, which are excellent in their own way. So, Defining the First, Second, and Third would be too cruel.


I want to offer these four people TOP prizes:

(10 upvotes + 3 spotlights)

brians1209 -

Lockheed XB-221

Incredible design, well thought out with so many mechanical parts. I am a bit uneasy about the pontoon design, which is not hydrodynamic enough. Overall, this is an outstanding design—hands down.

AntonWings -

Consolidated PYB-5A

Grumman G21 Goose

Both are beautiful and so stable to fly. The P.Y.B. dorsal gunner's rotating glass covers are so unique. I recommend everyone try them.

CrazyCatZe

Lorie HG-10


Incredible design and details: wires, stress, the ship-like cabin, auto-aiming canon, the pusher props, every piece is so cool. It is a believable fictional seaplane of the interwar period (1930s).

FatPilotOne

Hughes H-4 Herculies


This is an 8-engine beast. This plane may look too simple from far away, but it requires so many calculations and accuracy to make it happen. Its flight feels big and graceful, and the flaps on its wings are amazing. Hercules was one of the largest planes ever built in real life.

LonelySea22 -

F.B.A Type B Reconnaissance and Savoia S.21

Savoia-S-21-Folgore

Both planes gave me a great experience. The fabric-covered wings from the F.B.A. Type B Reconnaissance are a great idea, and it is very cool to see the inner wing structures. This gives me a true 1920s-era feeling.

Honorable mentions to -

steampunkair

Hydroplane

It is a simple concept build out of just 27 parts. But that's fine, I look at it and found it is a Great concept to skim above the surface of the ocean steadily. Well thought out. Unfortunately, everybody skip this great concept and he/she got just 4 upvotes. So much under voted.

Cartooncat32exe

Heinkel hd 55

This is another beautiful yet everyone missed this plane to try. Of course, it was also much under voted. A nicely built, fly very well, and proportionate.

(8 upvotes + 2 spotlights)

Awards are coming soon.

I will be going to spotlight and upvote you all. But please give me some time because I do not use alternate accounts while there is a limit in Spotlights per day.

And thank you to all participants!

Win's Wings @winswings
3/10/2024 New York

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    292k WinsWings

    Thank you to all participants!

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    292k WinsWings

    Congratulations! @FatPilotOne @STEAMPUNKAIR @CARTOONCAT32EXE

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    292k WinsWings

    Congratulations! @brians1209 @AntonWings @CrazyCatZe

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    22.8k KPLBall

    @WinsWings They need to fly from Sky park to snow stone without stopping

    +1 6 months ago
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    22.8k KPLBall

    @WinsWings I made my own United Seaplane Challenge (US, UK, French, Polish, WW2 Chinese, Mexican, Danish, Norwegian, Russian, Australian, New Zealandic, Brazilian, Italian, Dutch, Belgian, Irish, and Korean WW2 themed Seaplanes

    6 months ago
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    22.8k KPLBall

    Baby Stuka

    +1 6 months ago
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    22.8k KPLBall

    Fav is pzl 23

    6 months ago
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    292k WinsWings

    @STEAMYcrosby Yes, Polish ones are interesting

    6 months ago
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    22.8k KPLBall

    @WinsWings I was planning on showing some custom polish bombers

    +1 6 months ago
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    22.8k KPLBall

    @WinsWings I will try

    +1 6 months ago
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    292k WinsWings

    @STEAMYcrosby Lots of my favorite planes are from WW2. If I get more feedback to do a WW2 Challenge form all of you?

    6 months ago
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    22.8k KPLBall

    Can you do a WW2 challenge?

    6 months ago
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    I knew the xb-221 would win, great challenge!

    +1 7 months ago
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    292k WinsWings

    @frogbot4000 My pleasure, the main objective of the challenge is to learn new things from each other and improve our work in the future

    +2 7 months ago
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    This was fun! I'm not surprised that I didn't win, I had a pretty poor flight performance, but I had fun building my own concept. Thanks for the challenge

    +1 7 months ago
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    292k WinsWings

    @AntonWings Glad to know that, also I really appreciate your work

    +1 7 months ago
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    44.8k AntonWings

    @WinsWings
    Yeah, I know...it must be difficult for you to award me prizes, lol.
    Thank you for always appreciating my work :)

    +1 7 months ago
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    44.8k AntonWings

    @WinsWings
    Thank you very much! I am so honored to have won a prize.
    It is always inspiring to participate in your challenges and to see the wonderful work of so many different builders. This was another very enjoyable challenge.
    I look forward to another opportunity to participate :)

    +1 7 months ago
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    292k WinsWings

    @AntonWings it is so hard to find any thing that I have never upvoted or spotlighted your build before. Lol

    +1 7 months ago
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    292k WinsWings

    @CrazyCatZe I have fixed the links. Sorry about that. Also, I am posting the prizes in 2-3 days to spread out the SPotlights limit.

    7 months ago
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    292k WinsWings

    Posting the prizes in 2-3 days, as I need to spread out the Spotlights

    +2 7 months ago
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    292k WinsWings

    @brians1209 My pleasure. great work and so proud of you all

    +2 7 months ago
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    292k WinsWings

    @LonelySea22 Link fixed. sorry about that.

    +1 7 months ago
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    13.5k brians1209

    Thanks for the challenge!
    I really enjoyed building for this challenge, and this is also my first challenge that I actually made it to the end, last time I was disqualified for making a goofy wingless tubular seaplane, and one other was cancelled lol

    +1 7 months ago
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    292k WinsWings

    @CrazyCatZe My pleasure. I don’t know what happened with the tag

    7 months ago
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