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Mad Genius - Wind powered vehicle travels 2.8x speed of the wind
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Re: Mad Genius - Wind powered vehicle travels 2.8x speed of the wind
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I am buying the explanation myself. It makes sense that using a prop is like sailing across the wind, just instead of a x y z coordinate solution it is a x, theta, R polar coordinate model.
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Re: Mad Genius - Wind powered vehicle travels 2.8x speed of the wind
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Quote from: thought on February 28, 2011, 01:59:00 PM
wired magazine this month has a great article on this... along controversy with all the people saying that it cant work even after the full scale model worked... haha
Here it is:
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/02/ff_fasterthanwind/all/1
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