How to Pump a Hydrofoil

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1 | Wake Thief Edition ($2,200)
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2 | Slingshot Budget ($1,000)
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3 | Waydoo Budget Electric ($5,400)
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4 | Flite Performance Electric ($13,700)
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5 | Foil Drive Gen 2 ($8,400)
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6 | Beta Freefoil ($6,500)
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This sport is dangerous. Please be safe. We’d encourage you to thoroughly review all product safety material prior to trying. If you don’t feel safe, do not proceed. This sport is not as easy as it looks. It took us many hours of practice, but we enjoyed the journey. Please use a CGA life vest. Please wear a helmet to protect your head. Please wear a wetsuit to protect from cuts from any sharp edges. Please proceed at your own risk. We review products and share our own personal experience. If you rely on the information in this video, you assume responsibility for results. Wake Thief, LLC.

We want to figure out how to fly forever, but to do that we need to understand how a foils works, how to redesign a foil to reduce its power demand, and how to pump efficiently. It might be possible to fly forever on a hydrofoil! We enlisted the help of some friends: Eirik Bockmann and Todd Reichert. Eirik has a PhD in Hydrodynamics and is the CEO of Wavefoil, a company producing hydrofoils for large vessels. Todd Reichert is an Aerospace Engineer, flapping flight expert, and a celebrity in the human-powered flight community. In today's videos, we share some of what we learned on our journey to figure out how to fly forever

To learn more about Todd Reichert & the Aerovelo team, please visit aerovelo.com.

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