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Final adjustments and we put our Curtiss in the water. She handles the chop well. Notice the up elevator
Taxied into position for take off Scott eases the throttle forward. The Coots in the background watch as Curtiss begins to accelerate. They do not want anything to do with this big black bird.
Quickly the electric motor accerates the Curtiss as spray flies off the floats and she is airborne much quicker than ever before with the gas engines.  Scott gently banks and turns the Curtiss and flies several scale like laps around the bay.  Scott reports that the controls are quite sensitive but one or two clicks of up elevator and she was flying great.
After approximately 5 minutes of flight, Scott brought her down.   A little hot but an nice landing.

Some final radio tuning and she will be ready for her debut as a modern electric Schneider Cup Racer.

This concludes our coverage of the recovery and transformation of the Curtiss R3C-2, except for a few more pics of her at the event.   Thanks for following along and we hope you enjoyed the trip as much as we did. If you have any questions about what we did or how we did it, please send us your comments or questions.