Rudders on the back of each sponson would be too close longitudinally to the center of lateral resistance to generate effective steering force....
How can area divided by displacement be dimensionless?
I haven't seen Larsson's book yet, but I noticed that the fin keel on the Pluto800 has about 19 degrees forward sweep. According to Fig. 11 at the...
The offer is quite tantalizing - viel dank! - but whatever lessons my posts contained are free.
Just having some fun, Bert. There were actually a lot of errors in your posts #18 and #24 (e.g. "funy" instead of "funny" - why didn't your...
Microsoft may not recognize recongise, but at least on my machine running under Microsoft Windows I can type in planing and the system doesn't...
Let me take a guess. Even though the polyethylene resin is high density and high viscosity, when it's heated up to 500 deg to promote the curing...
Wayne - Just a bit of info at this point since your speculations are heading in a different direction: William and John Atkin stretched...
For starters: http://www.boatdesign.net/forums/boat-design/hickman-sea-sled-inverted-vee-2880.html...
Water vapor condensing into water droplets in the low pressure areas at the cores of the vortices generated by the "arrowhead" at the nose, the...
The SR-71 Blackbird. One Two Three
Would that happen to be the Latécoère 631? Un Deux Trois The French certainly do have an eye for elegant design.
From the internet archives: 2000: http://web.archive.org/web/20000306151036/www.hydrofoilflatsboats.com/products.htm...
The upper "fuselage" and canopy contours on that first design look a lot like a Lockheed P-80....
Styrofoam melts under polyester resin, not epoxy.
Will these pics do? http://dngoodchild.com/7066.htm
A wise old engineer specializing in the arcane discipline of gear design used to tell me, "It's time to shoot the engineers and build the product!"
marshmat - Thanks for the information on this intriguing problem. Ausgezeichnet! Is that a Stampe SV.4B?
If the hull surface in contact with the water has an outward bulge on one side and an inward depression on the other side, the unequal lift could...
I find this very interesting. Assuming that the propellers are geometrically the same except for the direction of rotation and each one is...