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Mesa Air Group plans to buy 200 electric seagliders from Boston start-up Regent to establish new direct, city-to-city coastal routes in the US.
Mesa Air Group plans to buy 200 electric seagliders from Boston start-up Regent to establish new direct, city-to-city coastal routes in the US.
Has had the first look at a radical idea, which traces its roots back to a soviet—era military craft. here is the ambition: an all electric vessel sales out of portsmouth harbour, lifts up with a hydrofoil and then glides just above the water using the ground effect, proportion of air between the win, the water's surface. it's been developed by an american company which claims $500 million of advanced orders. see uliders million of advanced orders. see gliders are _ million of advanced orders. see gliders are a — million of advanced orders.
The distance from portsmouth to cherbourg can be done in about three hours but in 2025, that can plummet to 25 minutes on the ferry, well, that would have turned into a combination of water—based craft and aeroplane. french company brittany ferries is exploring a zero mission battery—powered concept and our transport report has had a first look at a radical idea that traces its roots back to a military craft from a century ago. here is the ambition: an all—electric vessel sails out of portsmouth harbour, lifts up like a hydrofoil, then glides just above the water, using the ground effect...
To a soviet—era military craft. here is the ambition. an all—electric vessel sails out of portsmouth harbour, lifts up like a hydrofoil, then glides just above the water using the ground effect of a cushion of air between the wing and the water's surface. it's being developed by an american company which claims $500 million of advance orders. seagliders are essentially a hybrid of a boat and a plain. of a boat and a plane. they fly like an aeroplane but they stay very close to the water. we solve both the wave tolerance problem and the harbour operability problem by using hydrofoils which ...