Our unique proprietary W-Foil arrangement is one of the key technology features that separates us from the competition.

The W-FOIL has been developed by applying aerospace industry solutions from fighter jets, to marine hydrofoils.

ANHEDRAL FOIL ARRANGEMENT

The anhedral shaped hydrofoil is naturally unstable and requires fly-by-wire control to achieve stable flight. The significant benefit of this is the resulting unusually high manoeuvrability. Like a modern day fighter jet that cannot be manually flown, the W-Foil hydrofoil arrangement provides worlds best agility.

Combined with our state of the art flight control system, that has been developed specifically to leverage the performance benefits of the W-FOIL, the result is stable, confident, smooth flight when desired, but with the option for user selectable flight control levels that include highly aggressive coordinated turning and agility.

The result is a highly manoeuvrable flying boat like no other.

DRIVE PODS AT HYDROFOIL TIPS

Another fighter jet wing arrangement applied to the WAVEDRIVE is the location of cylindrical drive pods at the ends of the hydrofoils. Like long range tanks or missiles located at wing-tips, this maximises the lift generated by a span-limited wing and, just as importantly, moves the centre of lift out towards the wing tips, giving increased banking torque.

This feature combines with the anhedral wing arrangement to provide unrivalled roll axis control torque.