Jackal24 wrote:
AFAIK, the step on the floats causes large amounts of drag due to the
turbulence of the air created behind it. What about a retractable fairing
to streamline the step while in air? It seems like this would be fairly
simple to accomplish, but I'm not sure how much drag it would actually
eliminate.


How about if you eliminate the step by using air injected under
the float instead?

Lapstrake floats maybe?

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