The Hydroptere project to create a world record-breaking flying boat that will go around the world in 40 days is moving from lab phase to boat-building in two locations in Switzerland and France, the group has announced. Drawings were unveiled in Lausanne this week for the lab boat, Hydroptere.ch (see image) which will be a reduced scale version of the final Hydroptere Maxi boat. The smaller boat can be tested on Lake Geneva, closer to the group’s offices in Lausanne and the EPFL laboratories. The Lausanne polytechnic school is the official research partner.
The current Hydroptere catamaran officially broke the world sailing speed barrier at 61 knots in 2008. Alain Thébault and his team are now researching and testing
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