HYDROFOIL -- FOILBORNE, U.S. NAVY HYDROFOIL DEVELOPMENT, Ray Vellinga edited video

[BeerMoneyLive]

when the guy started talking i thought i was playing Fallout 3 again

[mad4diesel]

I'm surprised the U.S navy doesn't have a fleet of these already nuclear powered, could have curbed the over spending they do now for fueling their fleet, and they could be on station a lot quicker anywhere on 70% of the earth.. I wouldn't doubt that the Russian hydrofoil ferries they use now where initially developed as troop and weapons carriers.

[rantonsky1]

Great video!!!

[carnadero]

A boat like the USS Tucumcari would have been an ideal craft for combating the piracy problem in the ocean off Somalia.

[dick107s]

So you like Hydrofoils I see. Well do you also like Musicals. If so check out "Hydrofoil - The Musical".

It tells the journey of one mans quest to become foil-borne

[Xigano1]

Very nice !

Do you have clips from the Canadian HMCS Bras d'Or (FHE 400) ?

It's a very sexy hydrofoil, but sadly I can't find any videos where it is at sea :(.

[cdsida]

I like how the destroyer in the beginning is in like 40 ft waves, and the hydrofoil in less than 10 ft.

[GiantArapaima74]

Love that music =)

[dick107s]

Ships of the future...how ironic. I also once believed that. You should check out my short movie "Hydrofoil - The Musical"

[cochranexyz]

There used to be a Pegasus class beached near Megler, along the Columbia River in Washington State.

[frequentfiler]

@cochranexyz No, she's not a Pegasus class ship; she was the USS Plainview, AGEH-1, shown in good detail towards the end of the vid. My father, CPO Hagenson, served on her near the end of her life. I actually spent a night aboard. Is she still along the Columbia? I saw on a website that she was there as of '09. Thanks...

[cochranexyz]

OK, thanks. I have no idea what she's doing today. This was 10 or so years ago and she was hauled up on shore resting on her bottom.

[trackhoe23]

@frequentfiler As far as I know the Plainview is still there, but as time goes by there's less and less of her. There's another one, I think it's the High Point, tied up at Tongue Point in Astoria. I saw her close up a few years ago and I think she had the foils removed. I think I heard some time ago someone had plans to restore her. We'll see.

[eldorado96]

The boats in Key West were not represented in this ancient video. They were the Boeing Pegasus-class Patrol Hydrofoil Missileship (PHM) -- much faster than anything we saw here. This video included the Boeing built Tucumcari, which was a prototype/forerunner to the Pegasus.

[ortcloud99]

I remember these being stationed in key west. It is sad that they got rid of them. I have seen these in action and were unforgettable, the whine of the turbine and the rooster tail, very wicked.

[lepivert]

Thanks to Germans...

[tokyojrock671]

I was fortunate enough to take the last voyage on the USS Taurus before it was mothballed! Honored.

[frequentfiler]

@tokyojrock671 I was lucky to spend time aboard the Plainview. Last I heard this historic ship was a wreck on the Columbia River. Sad...

[c9ari]

It is so sad

[opigermoney]

thx for this fine video :o) hydros are the better one's...

[M0mentumV]

Mordecai, Get to work!!

[tannagra]

Though who needs fast attack boats when normal Naval vessels can 'flirt' with, and exceed, 30 knots, and then there's always Surface to Surface missiles - they're always good for a try.

[jaytron5876]

Seems like the US Navy could use a hydrofoil or some other fast-attack boat to go after Somali pirates! PT boats?

[kdraper2007]

the navy now has the Freedom class littoral combat ship.

[UltimateGTR]

Awesome video, thanks so much!

[theacemaverick]

Great video thanks for uploading !

[agriaoagriao]

im totally 100% naked now hehe k

[c9ari]

I love this video... I hope we get see some more in the years to come. Sort of like the flying wing and the B2

[Ogsonofgroo]

Amazing machines!

(I have no idea what the fuck dayyte is blathering about but this sort of shit happens when people forget what it is to be human, or sensible, or sober..:( )

Regardless, hydrofoil technology has come a long way. I have a question tho, my ex-navy bud was just watching this and he recalls a US Hydro. with torpedo tubes and large cal gun mounted on the front, any ideas? He says they were fairly small compaired to the ones in this video and off the Am. Atlantic coast.

TY:)

[Xigano1]

Had practically been answered by previous commend.

Your buddy is thinking of the Pegasus class

[mistatwo47]

do you have any PHM Pegasus-class footage?