Ground Effect Vehicle from Singapore

[red750]

Interesting, but not much scenery.

 

 

 

AIRFISH 8 | Wigetworks

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[facthunter]

It will imitate a frisbee if a float dips in. Nev

[FlyBoy1960]

It's called Airfish 8    (I wonder what happened to numbers 1 to 7 ?,  Probably now renamed to Fish 1 to 7)

[facthunter]

FISH can go OFF quickly. Nev

[red750]

Called the Airfish 8 because it carries up to 8 passengers (plus a crew of 2).

[FlyBoy1960]

50 minutes ago, red750 said:

Called the Airfish 8 because it carries up to 8 passengers (plus a crew of 2).

I was trying to be slighly funny, like the boat i saw at the ramp a few weeks ago.  "Unsinkable 3" what happened to 1 and 2 ?

[spacesailor]

Sold

Prior to sinking,  to unsuspecting victims .

spacesailor

[Area-51]

Research "Flightship" and you will discover what caused the project to be renamed and owner to relocate overseas.

 

Its a great concept for many reasons, and hope they succeed.

[BrendAn]

i thought that thing was from cairns

[Area-51]

1 hour ago, BrendAn said:

i thought that thing was from cairns

Correct

[Area-51]

How they function, what's great about them, and performance challenges present

[Blueadventures]

Interesting. A mate that tested the Cairns ones back in the 90’s told me how his back was after it belly flopped from about 4 meters. He was not impressed with the stall effect.  He said eventual plan was to be a small Boeing jet capacity and do Brisbane to Mackay in 4 hours and operate in 4 meter wave height seas.

[facthunter]

EVEN "Flying" Boats aren't that successful when they do a wobbly with the wing tip floats and then there's that lovely SALT environment. .  Nev

[Area-51]

The issue with the business model, like most, is that its "cost" incentive driven as opposed to "performance" incentive driven; broadly one of the two above dynamics never end well for anybody due to the presiding entity calling the shots... Someone mentioned the word Boeing; yes, exactly, case in point.