open L-foil with flap What about a L-foil with a more open angle than today foils, more like 120-150°, and getting the heave stability by an...
New foils? Hi Martin, how is the work for the new foils progressing? looking really forward to the new foils and how they will look (and...
Update There is a new video on the hydroptere web site showing some cfd simulation of the hydroptere speed version. They seem to investigate a...
Are there any new conclusions regarding the curved boards or Banana boards on PL6? Looking at the videos of ORMA 60 tris, these (little) boards...
New speed sailing crafts Seems like there are some new designs aiming speed sailing record based on hydrofoils, like e.g. Sylphe, Absolute Wind...
I am just curious what you are thinking about the following hydrofoil approaches for the use in sailing crafts: Dualcavitating hydrofoil...
Driven by my thoughts I did an Internet search and wound this interesting site: http://www.wingsystems.com/Development.htm I remember there...
As far as I know, all hydroplanes rely also on aerodynamic lift to keep the vessel out of the water! If you look at the footages, you can see that...
My thought is to reduce the foil loading by a wing shaped cross beam generating lift in ground-effect. Especially in a configuration like...
With all the news and achievements of Hydroptere, I am encouraged to think about if a modified trifoiler set-up (based on the former record holder...
Hello everybody, this is my first post on this site! I followed the discussions of this forum for quite a while, and I think now is the time to...