Thursday, July 18, 2024

Keep it Simple, Stupid.


I publish an outline of what I consider to be the best arrangement of a self-launching boat with fixed power-units, to silence those worms which will doubtless appear from within its woodwork to say they'd thought of it first.

It may yet be the outline used for testing, not least because we've all the equipment on hand to build it right now... which for types with vectoring propellers we've not.

Secondly electrical 'air taxi' development has proven that types with separate lift and cruise propellers are as successful as others with vectoring propellers, and simpler.

Thirdly we have to factor in the consideration that I'm lazy and like a human flash of lightning, have always followed the path of least resistance.

(Actually there's a fourth, that being that yesterday's for all its advantages looked a bit of a dog, whereas this looks the dog's bollocks.)

N.B. references to dogs' testicles are indicative of excellence in the UK.