He based the hydrofoil’s profile off of NACA 63-412, a typical profile for sailboat hydro foils like the Moth. What he found was it’s still extremely difficult to get the right balance between ...

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 ...

A Finland-based company called Foil.One has just introduced its first product reported Electrek: a hydrofoil. Hydrofoils are watercrafts that work by using an underwater fin to lift the vessel up ...

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

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

Exact same speeds. After almost every day of testing, we would put 15 times more cost in fuel in the chase boat than electricity in the VS9 hydrofoil.” The economics are compelling.

This carbon fiber personal boat is built on a hydrofoil for lift and can hit a top speed of 30 knots, has a ride time of over ...

Using computer-controlled hydrofoil wings, the high-tech vessel lifts its hull above water, which is said to cut energy ...