Take time out to see how I'm doing, and realising when I refer to the 'back of the cigarette packet' sketch that the legs are too short at 12" and should have been 18" instead. Unforgivable in view of the fact the sketch appears on the laptop ~ as the world's saddest wallpaper ~ and reluctantly have to tell myself I'm fired.
It's not the end of the world, however, as there'll still be sufficient clearance for the props once on the plane, and will make for entertaining YouTube footage if not. So we crack on regardless, as the plan is to build three proofs-of-concept: one to demo displacement in and planing on water; another to demonstrate a hover from land over to sea by way of launch; and one configured to fly above surfaces of one sort or another in ground-effect.
Those lengths of stripwood down the sides incidentally are set to stiffen the skis as and when they are fitted to the centre-section and flexed upward at the front end. This coincides with the 2026 Winter Olympics, and you like me will have been most interested not on what the athletes are doing, but by the fact that snowboards too are stiffened down their central-section. Exciting, and consider offering my services as sports commentator.
