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In life-threatening emergencies on the water, time is everything. Seaglider vessels offer transformative potential in disaster response, whether responding to natural disasters, supporting MEDEVAC missions for the Department of Defense, or delivering critical health care to…
Wave tolerance IRL? Our 350 lb "Squire" Seaglider has been there, done that. This was a whitecap day with 1-1.5ft waves and wind gusts north of 15 kts. Squire is 1/4 the scale of the Viceroy human-crewed Seaglider we are testing today at @regentcraft. With the proof-point…
It all comes down to hull design. Seaplanes and flying boats have flat, planing hulls. You can see how they skim over the surface at speed. By contrast, Seagliders hulls have a very aggressive deep-V shape. In flight, the hydrofoils are retracted and the Seaglider lands on…
Takeoff with the hydrofoil makes sense, but what does landing in a very choppy sea state look like? Does it handle similarly to a 55ft boat in similar conditions?
The atmosphere at ReIndustrialize this week must have been what it felt like to work at NASA during the Space Race. It was full of fearless technologists. Unapologetic patriots. Masters of physics turning the impossible into reality. And driven builders who have made a career…
Foiling Fridays at @regentcraft 🏄🌊Our full-scale Seaglider prototype is practicing her moves up on hydrofoils in Narragansett Bay — a major milestone on our path toward flight later this summer.
We asked @billythalheimer (Co-Founder & CEO @regentcraft) about the strategic importance of sea gliders in defense. "Our commercial customers like high-speed, low-cost Seagliders." "In the DoD space, they're hard to detect, flying low over water." "They're perfect for naval…