Originally Posted by
av8rps
I test flew a friends Kitfox Model IV-1050 with a 582 and a warp 3 blade on 1460 full lotus floats that were rigged with a huge amount of tail low on the water incidence (causing the floats to be quite nose down in normal level flight), and even on those bulbous floats it cruised at 5800 rpm in the mid 80's. It would top out in the lower 90's. And fwiw, it was a really FUN floatplane, that had no trouble flying 2 guys off the water (or snow) 2 stroke 582 Rotax and all!