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Re: Regent – Electric coastal travel

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Post by oska »

jasonwatkinspdx wrote: post #168
jimbob45 wrote: post #157

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If he can show any occurrence of that ever happening, then you come off as dishonest and disinterested in the needs of the community. Is it really so difficult to cater to his needs as well? There’s surely a better compromise than “Everyone who disagrees with me is a racist”.

This man is factually a racist. I am not simply labeling him that because we disagree as you insinuate, having no actual information on the situation. And no, I see zero reason to tolerate what is clearly bad faith behavior.

This comment and your other one above don't really add anything to the discussion here. They comprise an attack on an individual and, as you say, we can't have an informed opinion because we don't know the individual. So it just boils down to you calling someone you know a racist based on a one-sided anecdote.

Re: Regent – Electric coastal travel

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Post by AYBABTME »

simonw wrote: post #70
wthalheimer wrote: post #56

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Seaglider entry to service is slated for mid-decade so you're spot on, all these are pre-launch sales. We're one of the few companies in the space with firm, nonrefundable deposits and contractually obligated pre-delivery payments (that scale with milestones as you mentioned) on the full first year of these orders. We take off at the periphery of harbors and fly over the open water in-between. Seagliders have 5ft wav…

Sold any for the San Francisco Bay Area yet? Half Moon Bay would definitely benefit from hosting some of these.

HMB has some tricky shoals/rocks near its entrance.

Re: Regent – Electric coastal travel

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Post by oskardenandre »

wthalheimer wrote: post #52

Hey guys - Billy Thalheimer, Co-founder and CEO of REGENT here. A friend reached out to say this is blowing up - so cool! (Thank you beefman lol) Here to answer any questions

How does it fare with windy conditions with say higher waves? Isn't the ground effect lost then or do I recall my ekrano documentaries poorly?

Re: Regent – Electric coastal travel

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Post by deserialized »

noduerme wrote: post #128
KennyBlanken wrote: post #106

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Read on - what they were really afraid of was the dirty/smelly poors coming onto their precious island. You see the same BS with bike paths through residential neighborhoods. Despite studies showing that bike paths increase property values, residents bitch and moan about safety/crime. They basically figure that poor/non-white people will bike into their neighborhood and rape/pillage/burn everything. So you get a bunc…

Really? My street was recently turned into a greenway / bike street, and it's brought me nothing but an endless bike parade of smug white people in silly clothing. Just a couple hours ago, I was having to get my car towed and the tow driver was 3/4 into turning slowly back into the street when two women on bikes zoomed right in front of him, causing him to slam the brakes. One of them then shouted "Thank you!" over h…

Lmao, that's the worst of it? A guy had to brake sharply once? And people were polite to him afterwards? The utter tragedy.

I'll trade you streets and you can deal with the 3 dead kids from traffic incidents over the last 5 years

Re: Regent – Electric coastal travel

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Post by AYBABTME »

ews wrote: post #49
CTmystery wrote: post #28

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> The US isn't very good at building large infrastructure projects https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/interstate/finalmap.cfm But, yes, that was a long time ago. Still, we could find the will again.

That was almost three-quarters of a century ago, the US is a very different, chaotic, and dysfunctional country (see: California High-Speed Train Fiasco). We can't build anything anymore.

Because there's not enough of a crisis to justify it, yet.

Re: Regent – Electric coastal travel

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Post by dragonwriter »

coffeebeqn wrote: post #32
CTmystery wrote: post #28

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> The US isn't very good at building large infrastructure projects https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/interstate/finalmap.cfm But, yes, that was a long time ago. Still, we could find the will again.

We were the best once. The railroad was impressive as were many of the dams, power plants, etc. at some point things went horribly wrong though

> The railroad was impressive

The utter boondoggle of corruption that went into that is pretty amazing, though.

Re: Regent – Electric coastal travel

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Post by roflyear »

Reason077 wrote: post #4

What are the operating limits in terms of weather? At only 10m above the surface, I assume bad things could happen in stormy conditions! I'm guessing these will be best suited to sheltered areas and fair-weather tourist operations?

As a sailor I hope these dont take off. It'll put a lot of the water off limits to boaters. Which would really suck.

Re: Regent – Electric coastal travel

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Post by roflyear »

dancottrell wrote: post #38
rustyconover wrote: post #2

What if a slow moving sailboat came across this plane’s path? If it is using ground effect it couldn’t climb much.

The vehicle is limited to ground effect due to regulatory limitations and because it provides efficiency benefits but not physically. There are different classifications of WIGs, class B allows for hops over things so this could be a future option. In reality a sailboat is a pretty easy thing to avoid. Since its basically flat on the water, there aren't many large obstructions to line of sight and something like a sa…

180mph is insanely fast on the water. A sailboat even as big as it is will be hard to spot.

Re: Regent – Electric coastal travel

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Post by roflyear »

wthalheimer wrote: post #80
dancottrell wrote: post #38

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The vehicle is limited to ground effect due to regulatory limitations and because it provides efficiency benefits but not physically. There are different classifications of WIGs, class B allows for hops over things so this could be a future option. In reality a sailboat is a pretty easy thing to avoid. Since its basically flat on the water, there aren't many large obstructions to line of sight and something like a sa…

To be clear, seagliders are limited to ground effect in that it is physically impossible for the captain to remove the vehicle from ground effect. The flight control system locks the vehicle to within a wingspan of the surface.

Either recreational boating has to be eliminated or your thing will never work.

Re: Regent – Electric coastal travel

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Post by roflyear »

fnord77 wrote: post #37
crooked-v wrote: post #33

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In your theoretical, why is this thing flying so close to a sailboat that the sailboat can "suddenly veer" into its path in first place? The average non-racing sailboat has a top speed of only about 8 mph.

a 45-foot pleasure catamaran can do 80-90% of the true wind speed. 15-20 knots is not impossible. anyway, if it is possible that a GEV can collide with a sailboat, it will happen eventually

Very very unlikely
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