Top speeds of nearly 30 knots on a machine less than 5 meters long, transportable behind a car with no dismantling whatsoever…the stuff dreams are made of, no? Getting to know a terrific little toy, which…flies!
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Published on 16/05/2017
By
Emmanuel van Deth
Issue:
154
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Flying multihulls are not new; Eric Tabarly succeeded with no trouble in 1976, with his Tornado hull attired with two floats. Then there was Paul Ricard, the Hydroptère…and soon kite boards, then stand-up paddle boards with foils. And of course multihulls and now practically everything which races on the water. So, is that it? Foils are within everyone’s reach? Can we have a go too? On the market, in any case, there is a lot of movement in the little world of flying catamarans. And among them, one machine in particular caught our attention. This is the iFly 15.…