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Hydrodynamics of Boats and Floats

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Any record of progress in aerodynamic theory would be quite incomplete without some reference to marine aircraft—the seaplane and the flying boat. The performance of these craft involves two distinct phases, on the surface of the water and in the air, the one merging into the other at the moment of take-off from the water, or of returning to the same. When flying, the basic problems of marine aircraft are similar to those of land craft except as they may be modified in detail by necessary changes in form and proportion resulting in relative differences in the location of the center of gravity and in the thrust line of the propeller.

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Barrillon, E.G. (1936). Hydrodynamics of Boats and Floats. In: Durand, W.F. (eds) Aerodynamic Theory. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-91484-3_4

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