a louvered wing ground effect wing craft

a louvered wing ground effect craft would be very efficient
http://www.freeimagehosting.net/image.php?664e364ea4.jpg

 

It's an interesting concept but skip the video.

 

Soooooo... what's the question?

-Tom

 

This looks like something which can easily be proven or disproved with a working scale model.

There have been tandem wing WIG's before.

Universal Hovercraft example video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SoyFWgZGB0


Weber Hovercraft example (somewhat similar):
http://www.idealuniverse.com/hover/NationalCruise98.html


A model found on the Internet:
http://www.seaircraft.com/experimental.htm

 

These are known as ground effects aircraft, not boats at all. The idea has been around for over half a century, I do not think any have been commercially viable. There was a company in Germany about 30 years (?) ago that proposed making a high speed ferry that uses such a concept, carry people across the north sea fast and safe. they built a man carrying prototype very similar to those pictures and it worked, carried a crew of two.

but they could not get the investment to make a full sized model. looked like something out of the future. I guess the economics never penciled out where anyone would invest in it.