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"Flying ferries" incoming

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  • #2
    Tabnabs
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,967 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tabnabs


    I'd bet good money we'll never see this happen. Either you go by ferry, or by conventional airline.

    Brittany%20Ferries%20and%20REGENT%20Seaglider%204.jpg


  • #3
    DOCARCH
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 19,528 Mod ✭✭✭✭DOCARCH


    All sounds a bit jetfoil! :)


  • #4
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,678 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    do they offer any significant advantage over planes? I cant really see any, only coast to coast versus city to city for aircraft being the major disadvantage

    Versus ferries speed is the only one but at hugely reduced capacity the fuel $ per km per passenger will still be worse than any conventional ferry surely? Obviously the cost and emissions are outsourced to the elec producer for the most part rather than the operator. cool concept and all but essentially private jets of the seas only.


  • #5
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,445 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    The main advantage iirc militarily for the Ekranoplans was avoiding radar, and I guess that it could refuel \ take off without need for an aistrip.

    The Americans and Soviets had jet strike seaplanes in the 1950s also.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_P6M_SeaMaster
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beriev_Be-10

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • #6
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 96,467 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Electric, wing in ground effect.

    Only CGI pictures and vids so far , no hardware, no firm orders.

    https://robbreport.com/motors/aviation/regent-seaglider-hovercraft-1234612442/
    Ground effect, according to the company, will give the seaglider twice as much range as a conventional electric aircraft.

    Seaglider will require half the operating costs of a traditional aircraft, and with much less noise and zero emissions.

    Regent has received $465 million in provisional orders from commercial airlines and ferry companies


    Company site - https://www.regentcraft.com/


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