Wot Rocket:
www.sail-world.com/Australia/Wot-Rockets-chance-to-fly-blown-away-with-a-gale/45965
Can they verify using a GPS??????
yeah, they can verify using a GPS, the trimble is the same as on MI's and hydroptere's.
Just a bloody expensive , accurate piece of gear.
I cant believe he didnt sheet on and let rip, at least get the thing foiling for the media.
It looks like it has bugger all wing area - if the thing cant go in 30 how is supposed to go in 20?
I wondr how fast that kite was going
. those windows on the pod look like my kids were in there having a too long hot shower .some vents would be a good start and some tinting, some flat water as you pointed out,
Still ,good luck , and good on y ou's for trying
But a tall narrow wing doesnt have a lot of low speed grunt to pus you up onto the foils. with a good chop slamming you back ,maybe they couldnt get up on the foils.
The wing would need a steady wind /surface conditions and some distance to wind it up.
Do the rules prohibit it being dropped from a mother ship at 40 knots?
No different from jettisoning bits as the speed rises.
As for supercavitation, big difference between 1000 horsepower to make a torpedo go fast and the 10 horsepower they have to play with.
OOps! Back to the drawing board...
Or tow it up to planing speed with a kite
Sorry I just remembered this is the windsurfing fourum. As long as they wore boardies over thier sailing gear that would surely be allowed in the rules
