I just had to share this little beauty with the aviation fanatics on the boards. Check out this cool little plane. Its called the Seawind and I just love it. How versitile and sleek! I wonder how much one of these buggers costs.
I’ve made the decision to become an amateur pilot - single engine cessna’s mainly… I start school in a few weeks. I’m ver excited! I don’t want to purchase an aircraft just yet, not until I find one I really like to fly. My pilot buddies I’ve been hanging around as of late have convinced me to get my license…In all I’m excited!
you think you’re excited now, just wait until your first touch and go …
good luck with all that and have fun ! 
“Orville, the damn thing will never fly. I’m going back in to finish inventing the mountain bike…”
I’m jealous, enjoy!
Congrats on your future flying lessons! I earned my pilots license in 1985. I loved every minute of flying. Unfortunately, it was either buying a small plane or a house. I figured I could live in the house much easier than the plane. I also have money in the bank that I’ve saved by not flying. But, oh the memories of flying! Such fun times!
The Seawind is a sweet ride, I tool around in it all the time on MSFS
You are going to have a great time learning to fly, but you might want to look into co-owning a plane w/ a flying club.
I’ve been wanting to get back into flying for years. As for many, the only thing holding me back is cost. For damn sure though, once I’m done paying for school and have a few years of mortgage payments under my belt, I’m getting back into it. I even want to learn to fly choppers now like my idol Johnny L.A. 
I plunked down $20 for a 1 hr FAA approved R-22 simulator at the Cleveland Airshow this month, and apparently I’m a natural! Took me all of 15 mins to “retrain” my brain to stop thinking of flying in airplane terms and start thinking in helicopter terms, and to get the hang of the most basic maneuvers.
At the end of the hour i was shakily but steadily tooling around the airport, taking off, landing (hard! i tended to just drop the collective a few feet above ground in my eagarness to get the landing done), etc. Couldn’t manage to hold a hover though. it was enough to really get me considering adding it to my lesson plan, something I’m sure the flight school was glad to hear. Best $20 you can spend that doesn’t involve a hooker!!
Congrats and good luck! It won’t be long before your instructor suggests you wear an old shirt to a lesson.
Yep, I want all of that! Including the old shirt, post lesson!
Someday…
When I clicked on the first link, I’ll admit that I just thought “feh. a plane. a rather nifty looking one, but alas, just a plane.”
Then I clicked on the second link.
LOL ! thats why I added the second link!
OH and whats with the old shirt thing?
You’ll find out.
I’ve had my eye on the Seawind since I first saw a picture of one years ago. Certification is supposed to come in December of this year, so I’d imagine production isn’t that far behind.
It’s on my “millionaire list”… The aircraft I would buy/build, were I to come in to a large windfall of money (>$5 million) and why.
First string:
Zenith CH-801 - The workhorse. Slow, but can carry enough of a payload. Plus it can takeoff/land in an area the size of a baseball diamond… Yeah, it SAYS 200 foot takeoff roll… but that’s with no wind. A company that assembles these is at the airport I fly out of, and they said they can do it/have done it. Or takeoff/land on a helicopter pad…
Seawind. - Fast. Amphibious. Enough said.
Lancair Propjet - A kit turbine aircraft. 4 seats. Pressurized. The best part? 370 MPH cruise. On a prop aircraft.
Second string:
Lancair Legacy. So pretty, so fast.
Murphy Moose. Radial engine. STOL. Looks like a miniature Beaver.
Of course, these are just the “brand new” airplanes I’d buy. I’d try to get my hands on a Tiger Moth or perhaps a Stearman. Of course the first thing I’d buy would be an old Cub. A De Havilland Canada Beaver is definitely on the list. Maybe something ex-military would be in line. Like an F-86, T-33 or a MiG (of course, the operating costs of one of those would probably bankrupt me, despite the millionaire status).
And then I’d have to pick up a glider or two (single seat and two seat, single seat would probably be a motorglider), a balloon rig (chase vehicle and everything), a couple microlights (again, 1 and 2 seat). And then I’d have to get my helicopter licence and a helo. (Probably a Rotorway 162f, though I would be quite hesitant to homebuild a helo… I’m confident I could handle everything else, but helicopters are insanely complex…) Oh yeah, a gyrocopter of some sort… But I haven’t looked in to those enough to have one in mind… How much do you think would an airship cost?
I think I have a problem. Stop me now.
Oh, and by the way…
Soon you’ll have the same problem as me. Though maybe only with the fixed wing.
Doesn’t have to be an old shirt, just one you don’t mind losing. Literally.
Congratulations and welcome to the dark sid-- er, aviation.
By the way - the seawind looks even better in person. But do consider this:
A boat is a hole in the water you throw money into.
An airplane is a hole in the sky you throw money into.
Now, a flying boat… draw the logical conclusion.
And please, do, recount your first (and following) lessons in all their glory and infamy here, please.
I will - I start at Scotsdale Airpark in October. AHHHH!!! Arizona - where it’s nice flying conditions all winter long!
…And you can learn about density altitude all summer…