What did you guys do with hydrofoils?

[PhylumCnidaria]

Hey, kerbonauts!

Alright, so I've been experimenting with hydrofoils lately, and I want to know, what have you guys been doing with them?

I'd presume that the ability to go over 200 m/s while carrying massive payloads would help a lot of you needed to transport something to the polar regions. Say.. a rover? or an entire base?

 

What I did with hydrofoils is I first built an extremely tiny hydrofoil capable of 70 m/s powered by one Juno engine. Seats one kerbal with a command chair.

I used prior knowledge to build a super large floating lab, which is still in the works. Currently powered by four Wheesley turbofans.

Then, for the finisher, I built a medium hydrofoil built for speed and range. It's foil assembly was located completely under the hull and only used three pylons instead of four.

It was capable of 288 m/s before jiggling itself to bits.

 

If you're wondering why exactly I didn't bother to include the blueprints, it's because I really don't feel like it.

As fellow forumdwellers get to know me, they find out that when I don't feel like doing something, I do not feel like it.

 

Anyways, what did you guys do with hydrofoils?

 

Merry christmaquanzukah,

              PhylumCnidaria

[Fearless Son]

I have not yet made one, but I have been considering the concept since the new hydrodynamic model was implemented.  I thought maybe it would do for an Elcano challenge, maybe with some retracting gear beneath it to allow it to go amphibious.  

[selfish_meme]

5 hours ago, PhylumCnidaria said:

Hey, kerbonauts!

Alright, so I've been experimenting with hydrofoils lately, and I want to know, what have you guys been doing with them?

I'd presume that the ability to go over 200 m/s while carrying massive payloads would help a lot of you needed to transport something to the polar regions. Say.. a rover? or an entire base?

 

What I did with hydrofoils is I first built an extremely tiny hydrofoil capable of 70 m/s powered by one Juno engine. Seats one kerbal with a command chair.

I used prior knowledge to build a super large floating lab, which is still in the works. Currently powered by four Wheesley turbofans.

Then, for the finisher, I built a medium hydrofoil built for speed and range. It's foil assembly was located completely under the hull and only used three pylons instead of four.

It was capable of 288 m/s before jiggling itself to bits.

 

If you're wondering why exactly I didn't bother to include the blueprints, it's because I really don't feel like it.

As fellow forumdwellers get to know me, they find out that when I don't feel like doing something, I do not feel like it.

 

Anyways, what did you guys do with hydrofoils?

 

Merry christmaquanzukah,

              PhylumCnidaria

I made an SSSTO, it wasn't much use though, the margins were too thin, I thought about turning it into a normal cargo plane but then there is no need for the hydroplanes, I only needed them to get the hull out of the water with a low TWR that allowed me to get into orbit.

[batman78781]

On 12/23/2015 at 3:30 PM, Fearless Son said:

I have not yet made one, but I have been considering the concept since the new hydrodynamic model was implemented.  I thought maybe it would do for an Elcano challenge, maybe with some retracting gear beneath it to allow it to go amphibious.  

I've been thinking the same thing too. Maybe with infernal robotics there could be something like that.