> The 180mph top speed is impressive, but you're not going to be able to operate at that speed around other sea traffic. > you can't zip these things across a

> The 180mph top speed is impressive, but you're not going to be able to operate at that speed around other sea traffic. > you can't zip these things across a major shipping lane full of container ships. Why not? At the speed this thing is flying the container ships are almost stationary. If we take the Long Beach to Catalina Island example the flight time would be on the order of 10 minutes. If you take the full speed of a container ship they can travel around 5 miles under that. If you plot a course which avoids them by that much they can't jump in front of the plane even if they try.