Hydrofoil

Last summer I started playing Naval RB. I got up to the PGH-2 Tucumcari patrol gun hydrofoil. (I hated playing that boat with a violent passion, but that's besides the point.) And I recall very clearly, that pretty much any time I spawned on Fiji, I was immediately stuck/beached. The boat spawn zones are so shallow on that map that the Tucumcari's would hydrofoils snag on spawn, before you could build enough speed to get raise up in the water. I would then spend several minutes struggling uselessly to get free, or uselessly begging my teammates to drag me into deeper waters. Eventually some enemy would come along and put me out of my misery - not hard since the damn thing is about as sturdy as a wet paper bag.

Well, today, I decided to give the old Tucumcari another spin. I had forgotten about Fiji's shallows; and even if I had remembered, surely they've fixed something as silly as that by now, right?

Nope.

Please, Gaijin. Fix this map. It seems like other hydrofoils are able to s

So how do hydrofoils work?

Also, i made a advanced cannon mortar, that uses ammo intakes directly to the firing piece. I have a very big shell. The problem is, the shell goes VERY HIGH. In fact, it won't be able to come back becouse it will despawn. I have quite a big barrel and only 1 gunpowder casing in like 10m shell. Help?

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can someone please explain how to use the pid for this situation my boat either backflips or bounces up and down causing it to never level out i've got the altimeter connected directly to the fins some have suggested using pid to stabilize but i don't understand what to set the the 3 values inside of it to and what to set the set value to i cant seem to find tutorials on this outside of use in helicopters etc

I tried and tried to pick up and ride in with this twin tip someone lost the other day. I have a heavy foil so no option to ride the twin tip and carry the foil in. I was on my foil strapless so very difficult to to get everything situated and start in big chop. I have a long spare leash that i carry on my harness so i hooked it onto the twin tip and body drug in with the foil in my hand and the board behind me. Any good techniques to ride in holding the board? (it was a long body drag)

I have a lot of small missile craft, mix of wood and alloy. They have decent firepower and are powered by steam jet as I planned to eventually modify them to use hydrofoils for extra speed.

That time is now, they can go 25m/s but it's becoming increasingly more common for cram cannon shells to hit them. More speed will make them a lot better at avoiding fire. I know you can just use PID's, etc and let the ai constantly keep it upright and level; but I want a challenge and don't want to rely on ai to do the work for me. Are there any particular setups that will lift the craft but not require constant self correcting?

I did a load of testing yesterday, the biggest problem so far is leaning left+right. They stay pretty stable pitch-wise at varying speeds. Widening the foils doesn't seem to improve it that much, especially when waves come into play

I do, I dont care what your ride and just like having a good time surfing and watching people enjoy themselves, but if this should find the guy riding a hydrofoil out at crowded mushy sunset today, maybe think about how badly you could injure someone. Seriously that thing is not safe to be throwing around in a crowded lineup, could straight decapitate someone. Not cool man.

Hi, I have a Liquid Force foil on a Slingshot board. How will where I bolt down the mast to the board affect performance? I keep it pretty much centered but what if I move it all the forward or all the way back? Thanks!

Seaplanes have two major drawbacks to them. The first one is that since propellers don’t work very well when half submerged, they’re always mounted very high to stay out of the water which means the thrust vector is virtually always above the center of mass creating a down-pitching force when flying and the second one is that floats are very unaerodinamic. In the 1920’s piaggio Aerospace, eyeing the great Schneider Trophy of course, designed a plane that could get around both problems by using hydrofoils: the Piaggio P.7. You might have heard of the P.7, but if not, it’s an 1929 seaplane that uses a separate marine propeller and hydrofoils instead of floats in order to take-off and greatly reduce drag once in the air while also making it so that the regular propeller can be mounted in a straight line through the center of mass. I found out about this plane about a week ago and I can’t help but wonder, why are there no other seaplanes that use hydrofoils? Sure, the P.7 had it’s major fl

Why does the vs 10 cost 61000 to research is it like really good or something or is it because it’s a hydrofoil?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPB7g2iNZug

I made a hand shaped hydrofoil board last summer by eye. Though it worked, I can't imagine it was more efficient than a flat plate. I'd like to make a better one this year, does anyone have useful resources about choosing foil profiles?