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Am sent encouraging news from across the water, where at North Carolina's State University a team is developing an amphibious maritime drone; so the pathology I suffer from is not wholly unique. It's designed for rescue operations in the aftermath of hurricanes, which is not so urgent a need here in Lancashire as it is there.
It is also designed to do more flying than sailing whereas my own efforts are geared to sailing with a touch of self-launch or surface-effect on the side.
Nonetheless the team have garnered $4,000 from a crowd-funding campaign, and benefitted from ten times as much by way of a NASA grant. We don't have anything like a NASA in the UK, although it's the name I give to my wallet.
Like me they participated in the GoFly Challenge commencing almost ten years ago, which goes to show that if you engage in this form of madness you're in it for the long-term.
But well done guys... keep wet and carry on!
