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Soon we will scoff at the idea that man should ever have flown.
by fijiaarone 4y ago
Soon we will scoff at the idea that man should ever have flown.
- cookiengineer 4y agoI think that there's a lot of potential for ground effect vehicles/planes for island nations; as they're more easily scalable and still in the weight range of being feasible to work with electric motors as well. As an example, the Fischer Airfish AF-8 can transport up to 8 passengers (+2 pilots) [1]. They're whitelabelled as Wigetworks Airfish around the Singaporean area [2]. The concept of the plane/boat hybrid is as old as 1997, which is kind of ridiculous [3]. [1] (German) https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischer_Airfish_AF-8 https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischer_Airfish_AF-8 [2] https://www.wigetworks.com/airfish-8 https://www.wigetworks.com/airfish-8 [3] (German) https://www.fischer-flugmechanik.com/site/index.php?menu=realized_airfish8 https://www.fischer-flugmechanik.com/site/index.php?menu=rea...
- jaclaz 4y agoA related (past) thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32148657 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32148657 but I believe that weather conditions limit greatly their use in many places.
- FabHK 4y agoI sure hope not. Look, the problem is pollution of the environment due to dirty energy. Energy per se is not a problem, but the solution to many problems.
- marvin 4y agoWe won't. Hopefully we'll soon fly sustainably though, by sequestering CO2 equivalent to the flight emissions.