August 19, 2006
Flying on Water
While this is not a robot in any sense of the word, it is just very, very cool. Though it is only a short article in Scuttlebutt, the video of this very large hyrofoil sailboat is quite impressive.
Hydroptère means, in greek, marine wing. To get free from the Archimedes’ principle, it is a matter of lifting up the hulls of the boat thanks to a vertical pushing developed by some kind of sea wings, the foils. People have been dreaming for a while not of floating on but of flying over the water."
The videos:
Posted by elkaim at August 19, 2006 4:00 PM