Thanks, Paul. I knew that there had been military research into foil landing gear back in the '60s so googled to see if anything recent. Came up with this: https://www.toysforbigboys.com/water-toys/lisa-akoya/This was the only site I could find with footage of Lisa Akoya water operations.The cat configuration has a president in the S.55: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savoia-Marchetti_S.55. Beautiful craft.

I'm sure you're aware of all this. Just trying to prolong the discussion of your very interesting design. :)Thanks, again. Boyd

Yes I knew about the Savoia-Marchetti_S.55
A whole squadron of them flew to the US in the 1930's from Italy

The other Italian flying boat I was thinking off was the Piaggio PI36.
A gull wing with two engines.

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Here is a better site.

http://www.lisa-airplanes.com/en/akoya/portrait.html

Looks good. The SeaWind concept.

Is it real? :-)

I don't think it would handle rough water as well a strut mounted hydro foil.

You will see later when I can get some close up pictures of the Kite Borders


Paul Lamar


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