Companies, laboratories, consortiums, get your research projects, your innovations on board our 2 platforms for speed up their development, and reduce their time-to-market.Benefit from our outstanding visibility to promote your innovations and boost your image.
The legendary flying trimaran. Designed in large part like an airplane, built in carbon and titanium according to the processes and standards in use in the aeronautics industry, L'Hydroptère is capable of withstanding forces of up to 60 tons on its linking arms and sailing at speeds of over 50 knots. It can be used for experiments, to develop and mature technologies in extreme real-life conditions, both in terms of effort and environment.
A masterpiece of Swiss watchmaking, L'Hydroptère.ch is a concentrate of innovation and high technology. Developed jointly by L'Hydroptère team and EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), and built by the Décision SA shipyard (builder of the Solar Impulse solar aircraft), L'Hydroptère.ch was launched in 2010. Designed to sail on Lake Geneva, it will break all speed records, including the Ruban Bleu, which it will hold until 2023.
Many companies and consortiums conducting innovative R&D projects do not have a testing and maturation platform. When their innovations leave the TRL4 phase (end of laboratory phase), they must then add to their R&D phase the costly development of a test and demonstration tool or be satisfied with buying or renting an existing platform, not always adapted and sometimes with limited availability.
That's why L'HYDROPTERE 2.0 offers 2 exclusive and prestigious platforms dedicated to innovation in a wide range of sectors (aeronautics, shipbuilding, offshore racing, etc.) and subjects (materials & processes, systems, stress aging, electronics, monitoring, etc.).
Behind each platform, a human and technological adventure, but also performance, surpassing oneself, records. Well-born machines, ahead of their time and which have known how to evolve. They are always up to date, with exceptional performance that is always unequalled. They are a model of scalability, durability and efficiency and allow experiments to be carried out, test plans to be developed, technologies to be matured in real conditions if necessary, while benefiting from a worldwide visibility.
L'HYDROPTERE 2.0 is developing a business hosting R&D projects aboard its 2 hydrofoil boats.
Evolving at very high speeds in a constraining environment (humidity, salinity, waves, wind), L'Hydroptère and L'Hydroptère.ch are ideal experimental testbeds for testing innovations from different sectors (maritime, aeronautics, industry) under real conditions.
Here are a few examples of experiments that can be onboarded on our boats:
If an experiment is taken to the proof-of-concept stage (POC: TRL* 3) by one of our platforms, development is accelerated and the TRL rises (validation of the prototype with a view to certification: TRL* 7 to 8).
*TRL: Technology Readiness Level
L'Hydroptère and L'Hydroptère.ch are two flying yachts with an exceptional track record, born of the meeting of the worlds of aeronautics, naval engineering and ocean racing. Their story began in 1969 with an intuition by the legendary sailor-inventor Éric Tabarly...
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