The vessel stays in the water, like conventional boats, at low speeds and taps into its two-propeller electric drive system.

[Wersy] has been trying out different designs for 3D printed RC boats — his latest is a hydrofoil! He based the hydrofoil’s profile off of NACA 63-412, a typical profile for sailboat hydro ...

If you know much about ArduPilot, you notice that active hydrofoil boat doesn’t show up on the list of supported platforms, and you’re right. [rctestflight] points out that the three servos ...

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The hydrofoil design is finding favour with electric boat builders (see BMW and Tyde’s recent one-off, The Icon), thanks to the low drag resistance of the foils that lift the craft out of the water at ...

Few vessels have captured the imagination quite like the hydrofoil in maritime history. These futuristic-looking boats, skimming on wing-like foils above the waves, once seemed destined to ...

Fly Tahoe and Sweden-based Candela are working to build this type of electric vessel in the U.S., which would get a boost ...

Subsequent decades validated Bell's idea, with numerous boat and ship models appearing globally, all crafted to glide above the water without contact. This approach revolves around hydrofoils ...

The vessel uses hydrofoil technology—computer-guided underwater wings—to fly above the water's surface at high speeds ...

British skipper Sir Ben Ainslie sees ‘huge potential to grow’ if the world’s oldest sporting trophy can tweak its rules ...