Boeing Jetfoil

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Boeing began adapting many systems used in jet airplanes for hydrofoils. Boeing launched its first passenger-carrying waterjet-propelled hydrofoil, the JETFOIL, in April 1974. It could carry from 167 to 400 passengers. It was based on the same technology pioneered by the patrol hydrofoil Tucumcari, and used some of the same technology used in the Pegasus class military patrol hydrofoils.

About two dozen Boeing JETFOILs saw service in Hong Kong, Japan, the English Channel, the Canary Islands, Saudi Arabia and Indonesia. It never saw service in North America.