Giant Flying Wing - Focus 21 Superyacht Flies on Wing in Ground Effect

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On: Dec 3, 07
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Combing a boat and a plane would logically create a “blane,” right? Taking a cue from flying fish, some big French boat designers have configured this Focus 21 “yacht” to look like a giant wing. It will carry up to 15 passengers and flies using wing-in-ground effects. The yacht can flight about twice as high as it’s wingspan.

These French guys aren’t the first to come up with something like this. The Russians designed a “barge” to carry 100 tons at an astounding 500 mph. Also check out the Canadian blane we featured in September:

Boat Flies On Wing-In-Ground Effect - Pacific Seaflights Wingship (GALLERY)

It’s a bird… it’s a plane… No! It’s a flying boat! WTF?! Pacific Seaflight is reinventing the coastal flying experience in a HUGE way. This one’s a little technical, but I’ll do my best. The Wing-In-Ground (WIG) Wing Ship Vessels are extremely economical, take no pilots license to fly, and wou… [More]






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Great for use in Caribbean & HI Ferry service & around Alaska Penn & Great Lakes & No Canada area, Med Sea & Indian ocean runs alone. Now add more passengers & or cargo. Im Game. Very Cool.

By: rocketranger on Dec 2, 07 | 0 Trends | 2376 Comments

I want a blane, real bad.

By: Jeremy Gutsche on Dec 2, 07 | 1471 Trends | 958 Comments



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