Speedboat supported take-off for land planes

[kocovgoce]

my idea for a hurricane to be powered by another super fast hydroboat that will accelerate the hurricane to a certain speed. These small hydro boats will be entering in larger boats

 

[riggerrob]

my idea for a hurricane to be powered by another super fast hydroboat that will accelerate the hurricane to a certain speed. These small hydro boats will be entering in larger boats

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Please label your drawings "SPECULATIVE." They are better off on the speculative page.

 

[Schneiderman]

Please label your drawings "SPECULATIVE." They are better off on the speculative page.

Yes, I agree.
The idea is not new, by the way. Similar speculative schemes were described in issues of Flight in 1939 and 1940

 

[kocovgoce]

my idea for a hurricane to be powered by another super fast hydroboat that will accelerate the hurricane to a certain speed. These small hydro boats will be entering in larger boats

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Please label your drawings "SPECULATIVE." They are better off on the speculative page.

Тo put it on this page?

https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forums/alternative-history-and-future-speculation.42/

 

[kocovgoce]

 

[HoHun]

Hi,

my idea for a hurricane to be powered by another super fast hydroboat that will accelerate the hurricane to a certain speed. These small hydro boats will be entering in larger boats

There is a vague historical parallel described in Eric Brown's "Testing for Combat" ... it was considered launching observation aircraft from landing ships (on a set of rails) for the 1944 Normandy Invasion. Brown was the test pilot - the idea actually worked well.

Regards,

Henning (HoHun)

 

[kocovgoce]

catamaran ship as a carrier for smaller aircraft boats

 

[iverson]

Hickman designed a Sea Sled high-speed planing boat to launch Caproni Ca.5 bomber in WW1.

 

[iverson]

Again, there is no new thing under the sun, as the proverb goes. Hydrovanes and flotation bags were common among naval aircraft in the 1920s. Here is a Parnall Panther:

 

[Fluff]

Maybe this could be combined with a battery plane, i.e. a tesla semi launch 'sled'.....

 

[kocovgoce]

Again, there is no new thing under the sun, as the proverb goes. Hydrovanes and flotation bags were common among naval aircraft in the 1920s. Here is a Parnall Panther:

an interesting concept of

Hydrofoil​

 

[iverson]

Again, there is no new thing under the sun, as the proverb goes. Hydrovanes and flotation bags were common among naval aircraft in the 1920s. Here is a Parnall Panther:

an interesting concept of

Hydrofoil​

Yes, a hydrovane is a hydrofoil. But served a slightly different purposet: control during ditching, rather than lift. The hydrovanes kept the airplane from diving below the surface or flipping over before the the airfraft solwed enough for the flotation bags to inflate and support the aircraft.

On the other hand, the Pateras-Pescara monoplane used actual hydrofoils to lift its floats out of the wate.r