From Facebook..
The future of foiling is here.
Foilchemy, in collaboration with CapGemini, is proud to present its revolutionary electronic foil system that takes care of all your foiling needs in one place, whose applications will be particularly interesting for designers, shipyards.the sky's literally the limit.
The shell is unimportant, the brain of the operation is the real revolution.
Tune in Thurdsday, October 7th at 3:30 PM (UTC+1) at this link to find out why and how
I for one am very keen to see how they have (or will) deal with a two brain operating system on a small platform, where there are two top heavy objects big enough to influence pitch and banking without much input at all. It works great on an AC boat, moth etc, because one of the objects is static, and the other is intermittently static, and proportionally small and light enough to not have as much influence over what's going on.
if it were just controlling altitude I guess that's simple enough. But the foil in the vid has flaps on both sides of the wing. If they operate independently, that's a whole different kettle of fish.
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I for one am very keen to see how they have (or will) deal with a two brain operating system on a small platform, where there are two top heavy objects big enough to influence pitch and banking without much input at all. It works great on an AC boat, moth etc, because one of the objects is static, and the other is intermittently static, and proportionally small and light enough to not have as much influence over what's going on.
if it were just controlling altitude I guess that's simple enough. But the foil in the vid has flaps on both sides of the wing. If they operate independently, that's a whole different kettle of fish.
That it's programmable and, hopefully, adjustable on the fly, will make a difference as experienced riders can dial down the amount of assistance. For instance, the roll assistance can be turned on for beginner sessions and turned off for free style or race. Or it may be an easy way to dial in some roll for better upwind performance by damping a bit of the lift on the windward side.
That they have an actual, skilled foiler on board gives me some hope. It doesn't appear that this is someone from outside the sport trying to reinvent it (winged fins, anyone?) as much as an experienced group trying to think forward a bit.
why not use hydraulics like on a mountain bike and levers to control foil wing pitch angle
