Soviet ‘sea monster’ inspired this futuristic ‘flying boat’

Visitors traveling across Rhode Island’s Narragansett Bay earlier this month may have seen a strange-looking boat with wings and a whale-like tail floating in the estuary’s calm late-summer waters. Eventually, the vessel’s 12 electric propellers, six on each side, spun up and sent it churning forward. The “boat” advanced across the bay, faster and faster, rising onto hydrofoils until its hull cleared the surface. Then the foils lifted free, and the ship took to the