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This New All-Electric Seaplane Glides Above the Water Like a Hovercraft
Want to get from New York to the Hamptons in record time? How about Boston to Nantucket? This new electric aircraft takes off and lands on water the same way a floatplane does, but flies at 180 mph just above the water’s surface. Designed by two aerospace engineers, the Regent seaglider will serve as a very fast commuter between urban centers and coastal areas. Regent says the seaglider’s 180-mile range will be at speeds ranging from 145 to 180 mph. After the seaglider lands on the water, it… (robbreport.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Haha, that boat mode - dream on. Maybe on water like glass. But slightest wave wil make rock it like any other small boat. It this case with bonus of wing tip hitting water and end up in ground (water? ;)) loop being torn into zillion pieces. "Zero emmisions" are also funny statement - did batteries just pop-in to our world from nowhere? And are they charged with electricity being just sucked from air? If so then ok, it will be zero emissions.
Too bad a breaching humpback would ruin the day.
If they can get funding the trick will be modern materials, inertial aware high update rate flight controls, and "modern" batteries. The concept has historically had some challenges, but it is in the process of becoming quite doable. If there is a market for it, it will happen, the barriers are no longer technology.
So it flies in the ground effect (choppy water effect?) over coastal areas with fishing trawlers, ships of various cargoes, cruise liners, pleasure boats, flocks of seabirds, attorney-owned sail boats, and rogue waves. What could possibly go wrong?
“attorney-owned sail boats”? I detect someone whose ex-wife’s lawyer has a nice boat, yea? She shtuping him too?
180 mph and mear feet from the the hardest liquid know to not fly into. Buy a boat that goes 100 mph and stays in the water with hydrofoils - stop "honestly" stop!!