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
<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
<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
<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




We live on a boat and have foil skiers go by on a regular basis. Not
as tall as this guy but their ride is strangely smooth in comparison
to regular skiers: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=F0vQ0WIJs0w On
landing, would the first forward foil to hit the water have a
tendency to trip the plane or would the aft foil prevent that?

What about inline twin engine push/pull with aluminum end housings
for open water expeditionary work?

Been looking at homebuilt seaplanes since the days of Jensen. Your
concept really stoked the fires. Thanks, Paul.

Boyd Thompson

Hopefully the foil will just go through the water much easier than the bow
of the hull. It will temporarily sink of course but will generate a lot
of lift hopefully keeping the hull out of the water at landing speeds.

Both the front foil and the rear foil can be set so hopefully they will
enter the water at more or less the same time.

The aft propeller will be subject to more spray. Best to use just another
tractor propeller and engine.

Paul Lamar


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