It's already been said but I have to agree on 'Best Airplane Ever' for the FT Sea Duck. The kit takes a good amount of time to put together but the extra time is generously rewarded with a fantastic plane. Inverted, knife edges, flat spin yeah! Love that differential thrust.
Lower the throttle and she fly's easy and docile.

So far it's only seen short grass fields but I'll be making the jump to water soon.

As a note to any Toyota Matrix owners, the Sea Duck fits in back (just barely). Probably best to measure your aircraft transport vehicle before building.

Thanks Flite Test!

This was my first build. I have some experience with flying ultra-micro R/Cs but other than that no prior R/C experience. The build went fairly smooth with very few mishaps. It is definitely a more advanced build but it was fun, and I intend to keep building more airplanes until I run out of space to store them.

On the maiden flight, I did not strap the battery down tight enough so it moved around during the flight, and there was a small leak on the back of the hull. But I took it home and fixed those problems with more hot glue and some Velcro strips for the battery. After fixing those problems, it flew wonderfully! It rolls, pitches, and yaws like a dream! Aileron rolls, inverted flight, and loops are mo problem with the Sea Duck!

I definitely recommend this airplane to anyone who loves flying and especially loves flying off of water.

I have been building flite test airplanes for a long time. But the process of printing plans, cutting plans, taping plans, transferring plans, and cutting out foam was getting a little old.
I have wanted to build the Guinea for awhile, but I knew it would be a pretty big effort and thought about the speed build kit. $45 is a hard pill to swallow when you consider its really only $7 in foam board and some little pieces of ply wood, so I never pulled the trigger.

However, when I saw the SeaDuck, it was love at first sight, it was such a beautiful plane that the $45 sticker price didnt seem to bother me anymore. The kit came nicely packaged and went together like a dream. It was such a relief to not have to cut anything out, and not to go digging through my parts box for control horns, pushrods, and firewalls. it was all right there.
Building this thing was so fun but also challenging, there are a lot of big pieces that you must glue all sides at once that take patience and planning. Overall it is a very rewarding build.
Thank you Flite Test!