Talk:Hydrofoil
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What has been holding back the hydrofoil from achieving widespread popularity? Kent Wang 02:31, 29 May 2004 (UTC)
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Hydrofoil vs. Hydroplane
Websters New World Dictionary, College Edition, 1968: paraphrased;
Hydrofoil- ... a foil (wing) that lifts a boat out of the water...
Hydroplane- ... a boat hull that rises on top of the water when going fast enough ...
The two are different (Attn:Chinasaur), and my dictionary does not call them the same. Planing requires the hull on the water surface. A foil is submersed.
But a link from here to hydroplane seems reasonable (Attn:N328KF) because they are similiar concepts. (==See also==)
Pud 19:07, 25 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- I agree with Pud. Hydrofoil is a structure that lift a boat off the water, Hydroplaning can be a phenomonon. Even a car can hydroplane when it speeds across a puddle of water. Kowloonese 19:15, 25 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- I have no issue with this. -Joseph 19:24, 2004 Aug 25 (UTC)
- I agree; I think in most formal terms, hydroplaning is only when you completely pass your own wavefront, but in practice the term is used to mean anything that causes the hull to lift out of the water (as in "most modern boats are designed to hydroplane to some extent"). So I think the link from hydrofoil to hydroplane makes sense. The hydroplane as a synonym for hydrofoil I just got from dictionary.com (http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=hydroplane). If you looks at the whole page of definitions there, it looks like the terminology is pretty confused, but there is one source that seems to equate "hydroplane" with "hydrofoil", although maybe it means the actual foil and not the whole boat. But I'm not deadset on mentioning that in the article. --Chinasaur 03:29, 26 Aug 2004 (UTC)
