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MacGyver Guru  Joined: 12/05/2009 Location: United StatesPosts: 1329 |
Boat-Plane Thing Nothing difficult is ever easy! Perhaps better stated in the words of Morgan Freeman, "Where there is no struggle, there is no progress!" Copeville, Texas |
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Downwind Guru Joined: 09/09/2009 Location: AustraliaPosts: 2333 |
It looks like something you would want a fly swat with, or a bug net. Pete. Sometimes it just works |
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Tinker Guru Joined: 07/11/2007 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1904 |
I own a sailboat but I doubt that the designer of this 'thing' has ever been on one. 185m is one heck of a mast size & having two of them must be something to behold. All sailors know it takes an enormous keel weight to keep that 'thing' upright and sailing, meaning it will never take off and fly. Klaus |
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| MacGyver Guru Joined: 12/05/2009 Location: United StatesPosts: 1329 |
Tinker I too am a sailer and wondered similarly. The article says there are two pontoons and it shows them in a couple pictures, but they are so close-hauled, I don't think they would offer much in the way of keel action especially in a beam reach. I'll admit I'm pretty gullible and I thought the flight pictures were real, but now I'm thinking they were photo shopped pics. As for the claim of 185 meters, I think that must be a typo. 18.5 would be a stretch, but ten times that is well over-the-top. Two-seat gliders seldom cary more than about a 70-foot wing span, so 185 meters would be on the order of a football field on each side of the craft. How'd you like to be sitting in one of those lawn chairs on a hot approach with a cross wind? Pretty scary; still it's kinda cool and fun to look at. 
. . . . . Mac Nothing difficult is ever easy! Perhaps better stated in the words of Morgan Freeman, "Where there is no struggle, there is no progress!" Copeville, Texas |
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