First Flight

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• Hi Michael,
  It’s hard to see the components in this video, looks very promising though. I have seen illustrations (artists’ conceptions) of similar “boats”. Though I can’t remember for sure where I saw them. I’m thinking I may have seen them in an article in Cruising World of all places.

  I think that the next great breakthrough (at least in racing) will be perhaps something like the “Vortex” or the hapa design – though you need a place for crew and stores, etc. I imagine that working on such a project gives an engineer / designer fits. Thanks for sharing this!
  Cheers,
  Rick

  Posted by  on  09/22  at  10:37 AM

• Was it in Scientific American that I read Hagedoorn? It must have been in the late 70s. From that day I regarded my various hulls—Lightning hulls, 14s, ICs, you name it—as handy containers for crew and baggage. I corresponded with his son and do I remember correctly that his ideas were adopted for development by the US Navy? I imagined paratroopers landing on beaches under radar then gathering up their air and water foils, Sad, but possible.

  Thank you Michael. This video is wonderful. I want to pester M. Armant with questions but maybe I should translate his document first.

  Posted by John Turnbull  on  12/02  at  10:10 AM

• Thanks for the comments. Interesting, and yes, kinda sad about the military application. Bernard Smith considered the naval warfare aspect also, which he would, considering he was literally a Naval rocket scientist!

  Posted by Editor  on  12/02  at  03:33 PM

• You’ve been away from this blog WAAAY too long. Miss your writing.

  Posted by CC  on  12/20  at  09:39 AM