"Looks like Sailrocket has stolen a march on Monfoil. http://www.yachtsandyachting.com/news/?article=135526 Monofoil seems in many ways the...
Tom, You have most of what we were trying to achieve within your post: Added mass; Yes, in terms of boat handling this is primarily a way of...
Chris, Doug, James has told me to be on my best behaviour (sound of biting lip very hard...) so lets all keep the party polite? Although...
CT249 You have slightly mis-read my post, what I actually said was "We obtained acouple of old Laser hulls and fitted one with a very crude loop...
Doug, After we applied for our patent we found that others (unsurprisingly) had explored joined tip twin keel configs. What no one had done...
Doug, Longliner, Take a look at post #9 in this thread. We are considering a particularly (we think) appealing possibility for canting the loop...
Nico, We are producing a designers pack that should give you everything you need I think that you have misunderstood earlier posts: Your...
Chris, It was a bit of both. The original idea was mine, from before I met my business partner, James Macnaghten. After Tony Bullimore...
Vega, "It seems that you are talking of a keel system with movable parts, but the drawings don’t show them." Not necessarily, my earlier...
Chris, Lanchester was responsible for the circulation theory of lift. Apparent mass was something that was appreciated by others in the 19th...
One specifically for Doug! Doug, One possible configuration of loop keel is to make it as a true circle when viewed from the front, or at least...
Charlythe wind: Thank you for for questions, the answers are fundamental to what is going on here: "So according to your sayings, the...
Loop keel structure Matt, The loop keel has a significant structural advantage over fin keels in that it is a triangulated structure in the...
Chris, I was actually referring to Wing In Ground effect craft but your point about helicopters is well made (Helicopters don't actually fly,...
"They're also really easy to shoot down with small arms fire. It's not good when a $40+ million aircraft is lost to a 4 cent bullet. It's one...
The way to fly in lighter winds is to fit a bigger wing. We have found that the transition from planing to flight is very smooth and progessive...
PI Design Wrote: "By the way, on back to the original topic. The sailrocket project (sailrocket.com) is a similar concept. It will be...
Doug, Have not crunched the numbers on this yet but agree that this would be a "restricted foiler" rather than a Moth or any other class....
This issue occurred in hang gliding a few years (quite a few years) ago. Small pilots could not gain effective weght shift control of big gliders,...
DG: "Would the less dense of the two fluids offer up a greater amount of control for the drag it produces? Would an aircraft style rudder begin...
