The Boundary Layer Technologies Valo Hyperfoil is one-part PWC, one-part luxury yacht, and one-part semi-autonomous hydrofoil. It is all-the-parts cool, and we want to ride it.
48 hours and its mission is to go where no aircraft or scientist can go. the so-called boundary layer where the air and the ocean violently meet, below 3,000 feet. so when these systems make landfall, we want to know what s going on in that very critical boundary layer so we can help forecasters make the decisions they need to make. after dropping the drone into hurricane ian wednesday it recorded 216 mile per hour winds just 2500 feet above the surface. it doesn t record video, but it could be critical in detecting when a hurricane rapidly intensifies, something scientists say is happening more frequently as climate change warms ocean waters providing more fuel for monster storms. when this flies into the eye of the hurricane, why not just shred this. it doesn t weigh much. we are also going to be flying with the wind. we re noting fightinto g witht. e are hoping it will help