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Old 11-04-2023, 01:09 PM   #2 (permalink)
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I'll finish watching the video later.

Back in 2007 I did some research on the topic, sadly most of the links have vanished - never happened back when we had books, we just had to return them to the library.

A Whale of an Idea

https://www.boatdesign.net/threads/a...an-idea.17382/

PDF link from that thread that includes Mr. Fish (Dr. Fish?):
https://www.boatdesign.net/threads/a...an-idea.17382/

There was an orange colored hovercraft fan blade (w/tubercles for noise reduction) that was supposed to hit the market back then, it never materialized.

EDIT:

Article on modifying a standard airfoil.

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/...fig1_236679345

Seems to be a related video on this:
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