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I 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 b
by cookiengineer 4y ago
I 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.