Kometa 2 - Voskhod (passenger hydrofoil boat) - Nessebar, Bulgaria 

Nice video. Beautiful to look at. On my river there have been no hydrofoils for years.

When I a was youngster I used to watch the Komet on the bulgarian coast, I was very impressed as it looked like half jet plane, half boat with a very beautiful and low silhouette. My father and I watched at the hydrofoil through binoculars and sometimes later we used to go and see it in the port. Back in the eighties you could reached coastal cities faster by Komet than by car but it was also quite expensive. I think that one is the most graceful of all Soviet hydrofoils, however they were docked in the early nineties as they were already not profitable. At some point in the 2000 some of the boats were recomissioned by a private company and are now in operation again. I only rode once and it was a great experience back in the comunist era! Thanks for the video!!!

The biggest commercial ship on Tonle Sap lake of Cambodia during the early 2000s. Ah, nostalgia strike. I still remember watching it from the top of Krom mountain. Too bad, the company went bankrupt.

I was privileged to use many of those as regular means of transporation up untill 1995 when the last navigation took place on Dniper river. It happed so that I went to school and lived there in 80s through middle 90s and for many folks that kind of a transport seams rather exotic right now but back than it was no more than a regular way of moving around and was rather considered something between bus and the plane. The price range was rather in the same category.

Russian hydrofoil vessels "Kometa" the best.

That is a thing of beauty! With today's new technology, a wider rear foil with jets the back end would lift up to level.

Красивее и полет чище ,без брызг,чем у современных-корытообразных.

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Salute from Odessa! ) This ship is not Voskhod, this is "Kometa". Voskhod is really another , different model. This ship has 2 engines totally 2200hp. Total weight is 60-65 tonn. 120 seats. It was in production only in Soviet times, until 1991. No ships have been produced from that time neither in Russia nor in Ukraine. The reason is extremally high fuel consumption while the speed is quite mild - just 65km/h. Flighing on the wings is very expensive, while the ship itself is fantastic impressive. There were planty of different models of the hydrofoil ships in USSR: Kometa (for seas), Meteor (for rivers, most resembling to Kometa); Racketa, Voskhod, Kolkhida, Tchaika, Polesie, Burevestnik, Tsyclon, (i do not remember all of them, the istory says, Every ney year has been issued the new model !) We did not have so many cars in production as we had ships...

this is a Kometa. Sea going hydrofoil. powered by 2 1100Hp engines. www.hydrofoils.org/HGal/hgal.htm Vokhods are smaler..

does anybody knows if this goes to varna

Great video and amazing zoom! My boyfriend is begging me to ask you; what camera did you use for that?!

Коя година е снимано това? Радвам се че не са отишли всичките за скрап, колко такива комети са останали имате ли информация? :)

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Russia has resumed the production of hydrofoil ships of the "Kometa" type ria.ru/economy/20170617/1496708561.html More info about project 23160 "Kometa 120M" www.vympel-rybinsk.ru/kometa-120m-proekt-23160.html

Great Russian engineering.

Are the RUSSIAN "RIVER ROCKETS" for sale?

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Why governments or people abandoned such a wonderful and fast means sea transportation? Is it very expensive to maintain or what?

wtf is that?

Dirty!

Nice video. Beautiful to look at. On my river there have been no hydrofoils for years.