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Re: Lift introduces electric foil!

Postby abel » Wed Mar 29, 2017 8:53 pm

Old engineering saying: "Let's automatize everything... and take the fun out of it!"

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Re: Lift introduces electric foil!

Postby longwhitecloud » Wed Mar 29, 2017 9:20 pm

quality - want a go... should be very efficient

would be interested to know if there is any prior artwork to mine.

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Re: Lift introduces electric foil!

Postby abel » Thu Mar 30, 2017 7:11 pm

longwhitecloud wrote:
Wed Mar 29, 2017 9:20 pm
quality - want a go... should be very efficient

would be interested to know if there is any prior artwork to mine.
https://www.google.ch/patents/US20040139905

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Re: Lift introduces electric foil!

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Re: Lift introduces electric foil!

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Re: Lift introduces electric foil!

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Re: Lift introduces electric foil!

Postby fun2kite » Sat Apr 01, 2017 9:02 am

looks damn heavy :-)
Or is there a reason to carry like this?
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Re: Lift introduces electric foil!

Postby fun2kite » Sat Apr 01, 2017 9:11 am

Question:
If I were to just tie the ScubaJet to the bottom of my current hydrofoil with tape.. Literally to the fuselage under the wings.. Would it kill all the lift?
Or would I in-effect, be able to ride it as e-foil? We can see that LiftFoil guys, have the propeller sitting above the wings. So I wonder if tying it under the wings, would disrupt the water flow and not allow it to foil any more.


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Re: Lift introduces electric foil!

Postby LetsFlyaKite » Sat Apr 01, 2017 1:30 pm

longwhitecloud wrote:
Wed Mar 29, 2017 9:20 pm
quality - want a go... should be very efficient

would be interested to know if there is any prior artwork to mine.

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Yeah right, that looks like it was just drawn about 5 minutes ago. :nono:

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Re: Lift introduces electric foil!

Postby gbrungra » Sat Apr 01, 2017 11:42 pm

Interesting that the motor/propeller is above the foil. So you breach the propeller and lose thrust, but don't breach the foil and come down off the foil.

Has anyone seen video of anyone starting from a dead stop on one of these things?


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