Cargo · anywhere on Earth
Waterfly is building ground-effect aircraft to move cargo across the planet, faster than freight, cheaper than shipping, with no runway at all.
Cargo from any city on the planet to any other, within a day, for less than $500. Not a faster ship. Not a cheaper plane. A new way to move the world.
A wing the size of the ocean it flies over.
A blended-wing-body craft that skims the surface on a cushion of air. All lift, no waste. Built to carry real payload across real distance.
ALT 0.0M · GND EFFECT
Fly a few meters above the water, and the rules change.
Within a wingspan of the surface, a wing rides a cushion of its own air. Drag collapses. Efficiency soars. It is the most under-used phenomenon in flight, and the key to moving cargo at the speed of an aircraft and the cost of a ship.
Waterfly is turning that physics into planetary infrastructure.
per shipment, city to city
anywhere on Earth
faster than sea freight
runways required
71% of the planet becomes a runway.
Ground-effect craft need no airport, no port, no terminal, just open water. Every coastline, every island, every river mouth becomes a node in a single planetary network.
Draw a line between any two of them, and cargo crosses it in hours.
Nobody has done this. That is the point.
Fly meters above the waves.
Hold a craft in ground effect over a moving, chaotic sea, at speed, in gusts, for thousands of kilometers, and never touch down.
Think for itself over open ocean.
Sense, decide and stay alive with no runway, no human in the loop, and no margin for error.
Make distance almost free.
Engineer a powertrain efficient enough that a $500 shipment can cross an ocean, and still pay for itself.
Build at the scale of a planet.
Manufacture marine-grade craft by the thousand, light, cheap, and identical, without losing the physics.
If these keep you up at night, you belong here.
The door is open
Come move the world.
Waterfly is a small team taking on one of the hardest engineering problems on the planet. If you want your best work to be something that actually mattered, this is where it happens.