Granted, these are not full size seaplanes, but nonetheless, they are aircraft that take off and land on the water. This is the weekend of the annual gathering of Radio Controlled Seaplanes at Lake Havasu, and judging by the number of enthusiasts that I saw at Windsor Beach, it looks like a good turnout. Last year, we had our Granddaughter Laila with us when we checked out this event.
These are a few of the pictures I took, that reflect the variety of Seaplanes that folks build and fly. While watching the action in the sky, I couldn't help but wonder if they ever have any mid-air collisions. Even though there is some control, with limited numbers of planes in the air at any given time, and a directional control pattern out over the water, it looked like there were a few near misses during the hour or so that I watched. The only mishap that I saw, was one of the planes came down for a landing too hard, and it ripped the floats right off the plane. The operator gave it more throttle, and the plane continued to fly without the ability to land again on the water. When it was time to terminate the flight, the plane came down with a sort of controlled crash on the water, near the beach.
Some of the detail on these planes is incredible. It wasn't hard to see that lots of hours go into the building of these very detailed, miniature airplanes. The weather continues to be almost perfect here along the Colorado River. It was in the upper 80's yesterday, but it's cooling down at night, and with the house opened up during the evening, it's the time of year when we don't need the air conditioner, or the heater.
Granted, these are not full size seaplanes, but nonetheless, they are aircraft that take off and land on the water. This is the weekend of the annual gathering of Radio Controlled Seaplanes at Lake Havasu, and judging by the number of enthusiasts that I saw at Windsor Beach, it looks like a good turnout. Last year, we had our Granddaughter Laila with us when we checked out this event.
These are a few of the pictures I took, that reflect the variety of Seaplanes that folks build and fly. While watching the action in the sky, I couldn't help but wonder if they ever have any mid-air collisions. Even though there is some control, with limited numbers of planes in the air at any given time, and a directional control pattern out over the water, it looked like there were a few near misses during the hour or so that I watched. The only mishap that I saw, was one of the planes came down for a landing too hard, and it ripped the floats right off the plane. The operator gave it more throttle, and the plane continued to fly without the ability to land again on the water. When it was time to terminate the flight, the plane came down with a sort of controlled crash on the water, near the beach. 
Some of the detail on these planes is incredible. It wasn't hard to see that lots of hours go into the building of these very detailed, miniature airplanes. The weather continues to be almost perfect here along the Colorado River. It was in the upper 80's yesterday, but it's cooling down at night, and with the house opened up during the evening, it's the time of year when we don't need the air conditioner, or the heater.
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