"Joe" wrote in message ups.com...
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| DSK wrote:
| Joe wrote:
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| Could it work?
| http://www.schoellmarine.com/images/index/1b.jpg
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| Sure.
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| What do you think and air cushion vehicle is? There is a
| whole subset of aircraft called Wing-In-Ground-Effect
| (abbrev WIG) vehicles, designed to only fly within ten or
| fifteen feet of the ground. The Russian air force used a
| number of them for utility vehicles.
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| That said, the picture doesn't really show us much.
| http://www.se-technology.com/wig/htm...en=hist&code=0
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| So you think a sailboat could be made to use surface effect lift?

You'd never get enough horsepower out of a sailboat sail to
power a WIG sailboat. Note the very large engines on all the
various WIG craft pictured in the link elsewhere.

Paladin

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