jet powered ground effect flying boat hotels

many many many ground effect boat planes have been designed.

they are , old school.

modern day cruise ships do a pretty fine shop of cruising the oceans with thousands of people at 20-25 knots. the problem is that this is pretty damn slow if you want to fly a massive city of people to different places ALL the time. it really is slow.

flying jet engines for massive boats have been developed decades ago and succesfully flown many times by the russians.

but no one ever tried developing a jet powered flying boat hotel, but ordinary propeller powered boat hotels were designed liked the caproni. ca.60.

instead of perpetual decades long dream of re-animating the idea of flying airship hotels ( quasi zepplins of old bringing floating flying hotels back to life) ---building a flying hotel for 300 people wouldnt really be that much of a technological challenge.

the hotel can easily do 80 knots with jet propulsion and massive huge blended wing body , with the vehicles bottom about 10 meters from the sea surface.

in wavy conditions the sheer enormous weight of the wing would power through any smallish wave crests and would really be a robust system.

80 knots is a world of difference from 25 knots. you could cross the atlantic in a reasonable amount of time. hell, you could cross the pacific in a reaosnable amount of time.

more importantly you could easily outrun storms at sea. and if you could not, you would still be big enough to wait them out like a conventional cruise ship.