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Electric efficiency is measured in Wh/km so perhaps an EV should have been thrown in the mix as a range comparison. That puts this bird at roughly 333Wh/km if it had say a 100Kwh battery (assumed size) like a big Tesla Model X. As a comparison, an average driver of a model x would get 240Wh/km and 410km range from the same battery. Can we get a battery spec on the Viceroy?
Excellent, thought-provoking, & cautionary presentation addressing critical issues. I watched this several times juxtaposed w/ reading about the recent Hawai’i Seaglider Initiative. In applying Seaglider operations in the Hawaiian Islands context, I am largely curious as to what infrastructure has been planned as a viable, sustainable, EPA-certifiable system to support on-land traffic ingress/egress to/from Seaglider terminal facilities. This problem is geometrically challenging in an island environment where real estate is already crazily limited. Additionally, I look to how the Hawai’i Seaglider Initiative will comply w/ all conservation entities in their proposed Seaglider operations between, for example, O’ahu & Maui during the months November through April when our humpback whales have migrated back from Alaska into Hawaiian ocean channels. As quietly & as cleanly as a Regent Viceroy Seaglider may operate, there still exists a HUGE threat to these already endangered annual visitors. Did we not learn any lessons from the Seaflight Boeing hydrofoil operations in the 70’s which failed in Hawai’i only after a few short years? We also cannot expect consistent low-wake, low-wave conditions in Hawai’i’s waters. That’s what killed Seaflight. It’s not like operating in Puget Sound, San Francisco Bay, or between Hong Kong & Macau. Thank you for this thought-provoking presentation! 🪁👍🪁
IM HOPING TO BUILD ONE THIS WINTER LIKE THE GREEN ONE THAT ACTALLY FLEW AN HAD A S,N,A.F.U/ LOL BUT FOR LOOKS THAT AIR FISH 8 LOOKS THE BEST BUT IF YOUR GOING TO INVEST THAT MUCH TIME MONEY AN SUPPLIES YOU MIGHT AS WELL INSTALL ALL THE NORMAL FLIGHT CONTROLLS AN JUST DEAD STICK THEM IN THE WINGS SO YOU ATLEAST HAVE THE OPTION TO CONVERT THE GROUNDEFFECT BOAT TO A LOW HIGHT PUDDLE JUMPER? BUT AGAIN!! ITS GREAT LOOKING #JESUSisKING *GBYAA!!!!!!!!!!!*
Fantastic that you are reporting on these aircraft. Long been a passion. Keep up the fantastic work. And for James and his wife. Glad to hear you are both OK.
@@onewingspanabove yes I have added larger cables and a dual cable system. I had it rebuilt in 6 weeks. The insta360 x3 camera footage is amazing, best camera I have owned
Even with the ground effect advantage and simpler maritime regulations, a specialized boat like this could have a hard time competing with the economic efficiency of thousands of electric airplanes described in the NASA Regional Air Mobility report. It does look cool!
Hi. I am developing an electric amphibian roadable flying car design that works really well on water, in ""ground effect"", and transitions to land using its 4 large wheels. It is called the Sky Chaser, and looks and drives like a car, flies both vertically and horizontally, and is amphibian. It has 2 rotating prop motors in front and a stationary prop motor in back blowing thrust through its internal wing. It is basically a twin engine tractor tricopter flying wing design, with double elevons, and double rudders, and has extremely short wings forming the body of the vehicle. The rotating front motors are mounted on nacels connected to the internal wing, and the prop motors throw high speed thrust over the internal wing. This gives the short wing a lot more lift. Also the side panels housing the wheels extend both above and below the wing and help channel the thrust over the wing and act as wiglets, which reduce the wingtip vortices, thereby reducing drag. The vehicle works very well in all modes of operation. It works great on water and can take off an land both vertically or horizontally. The wheels acts as rudders in the water, and the thrust over the wing lifts the vehicle out of the water, with only the rotating wheels guiding the vehicle, enabling the vehicle to take off on water in a very short distance. The thrust over the wing also enable transition from VTOL to plane mode and visa versa at very slow speeds, making the transitions very stable. It flies really well and is very maneuverable. The vehicle can seen in my icon on the top left hand side of this post. If you click on the icon you will find flight test videos. The design was tested as a 1/6 scale vehicle built using water resistant foam board and hot glue, and the bottom part was also covered with packing tape to make it extra water tight. In addition, I have recently made a functional full scale unmanned prototype which has begun to hover. I started the project in 2016 in San Diego, Calif, and 3 years ago the project moved to the middle of Sweden to work with a business partner, where our goal is to make a Blade Runner style manned flying car. For more information about the project, search: Sky Chaser flying car. Flight videos on TikTok. Search William Walker Sky Chaser. SkyChaser(dot)se
To make your speed comparison between these craft and the PC-12, you need to discuss indicated airspeed. The Pc-12 will indicate 365 km/hr at 25,000. If the Viceroy can get to 500 feet it can make it higher as the electric motors do not loose power with height as a PC-12 does. At 10,000 feet the Viceroy would true out at 420 km/hr. As for the prototype tail, note the slats added to increase the efficacy of the tail. Furthermore, note the extremely rapid pitch change of the tail as the vehicle pops out of the water indicating that the pitching moment is required for foil compensation.
@onewingspanabove THAT is about longterm political will (extremely rare). Sir Dovemeyer Robinson said back in the 60s light rail would be essential to control congestion. He was right then, and now.
@@onewingspanaboveFrom the first second of seeing Soviet ekranoplans they have been my favorite form of transit and so any channel that focuses on them I save, and once I saw you had a channel about gev's and were naming other channels dealing with gev's I felt someone may also wish to see them.... I enjoy your channel.
Thank you for this brilliant video. The Seaglider is an interesting concept. But I think wings are to high and to much aspect ratio for a good ground effect. Long wings are also a problem for turns. And have high costs in a harbour. The Seaglider is more a plane flying low. The flight of the 1/4 model is not in ground effect. The WIGs I know all have an electronic system for adjusting the high, even the big russian ekranoplan. An exception are the Tandem Flairboats from Dipl.- Ing. Günther W.Jörg from germany, leaving near where I live. They are stable without electronic.
No probs.. Indeed the Seaglider seems to be an airplane flying low.. They stated on the record though that their 1/4 model was indeed in GE. So within a wingspan away from the surface roughly.. If Regent do this well though, this could open up the market for other "true" skimmachines..
I wonder how the testing for landings are going because I have seen ekranoplan landings from within the crafts and they look like back breakers; enough to give backaches to anyone watching from desktop.
As a passionate ground effect enthusiast who worked closely with Hanno Fischer I very much enjoyed your video. Keep them coming - I am excited to see what you do next. Graham Taylor
Greetings Paul. Thank you for the high quality video and commentary on GE craft. We would like to speak with you regarding new tech in the GE space. We have attempted to connect with you via Li. Regards. Ro
Thank you for the kind words. We are trying to give back to the community by making this content. Lots of amazing information out there and glad we can do our part!
Someone needs to marry a WIG hull, to a Caproni flying barrel type of air prop (above the back deck area), with one air cooled engine to power both the air prop(s), and the water jet propulsion systems.
Indeed.. But they already exist. The Catalina was a legendary seaplane that could land at airports as well as land in water. (www.stuff.co.nz/waikato-times/news/85895917/rare-catalina-makes-a-return-to-taupo) The trick with ground effect is that there are too many things like buildings and humans in the way on land so predominantly takes place above water. Some Russian ekranoplans also skim above large ice flats.
Brilliant content, thanks so much for making these videos, only just found this channel and will carefully go through every video. I'll be starting to build full scale wig boat very soon but need to do a lot of research first. Your channel is really going to help a lot. Ben
@@onewingspanabove sounds good. 👌It will probably take me a year to build so next summer I hoping for. Im going to meet with Kester Haynes this evening. Here he is with his aqua plane racing Bear Grylls. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Fj2XR17qg3Q.html I intend to take inspiration from kesters design but mine will be a two seater and dual controls. I've bought an 85hp jabiru aircraft engine but that's it so far. I've also been in contact with James Greenberger ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-u0-GqDL3smk.html He's given me a few tips. My previous project was a full scale helicopter which is on my channel. There will be some cross over knowledge but they are very different machines. Might have to ask you the odd question after watching your videos first. Ben
Just found your channel and its fascinating stuff.I have a question that maybe you could answer? One of the things I noticed about GEV's was that, well, the 'wing' is the important thing and I was curious is a wing-body design such as the Burnelli wing-fuselage concept would work 'better' for such vehicles? I get that the DARPA suggested twin fuselage design would likely have less overall drag but wonder if a wing-fuselage with it's greater carrying capacity might not be a workable solution. thanks
Thanks muchly! Well.. blended body skimmachines have been suggested before, like the Seabus project, but they have not eventuated. The suggested HW80 howerwing was essentially a lifting body with a tail. The issue with lifting bodies is longitudinal stability. You can make one stable in flight with effort but in GE it gets even harder.
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IM A FILIPINO INVENTOR, MAYBE IF REGENT CAN HIRE ME AS A DESIGNER AND FUND ME FOR MY RESEARCH, NOT ONLY THEY CAN BEAT DARPA THEY CAN BE THE BEST IN THE WORLD. AND MY DESIGN HAS SO MANY SAFETY FEATURES, ITS SO EASY TO ADAPT THAT CAR MANUFACTURERS WILL BE HAPPY TO ADAPT TO MY DESIGN.
@@onewingspanabove i give a clue, remember about cyclocopter , not the circular one but the threaded. theres somebody who make it but his design is not feasible for real application also those circular ones also. i found a way to make it practical and feasible. sometimes you just tweek it a little and add some personal touch to an existing tech to make it your own.
@@onewingspanabove one type of my design is based on cyclocopter, if your creative enough youll figure it out. for ex. youll just replace the wheels of a motorcyle taking advantage of cyclocopters ground to effect. a little food for thought. i still have another 5 types of propulsion that i originally thought out. one in those design can conquer the pacific, an air fortress. youll be amazed how simple it is to make.
Excellent summary of current WIG technology ! There were a few of these I seemed to have missed. Daniel is doing great work at RCTestFlight here in Seattle. I’ve always thought the hover wing could be improved upon. It was always just a mashup and flies at an odd angle forcing the pilot to peer over the nose. The hovercraft aspect gets the machine free of the surface a little faster with less power, but once airborne it just becomes extra drag and weight. Enjoyed your video ! 👍🏼
boy it's crazy we could see working prototypes of these things as soon as next year. And if accepted I could see them in mass production by 2027. Hopefully we won't ever need to use them in a full scale war
