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Wow this actually almost brought tears to my eye :D These guys have been at it for so long it is hugely deserved ! listen to his voice on the record's video (

• hencq 14y ago
  Yeah it's pretty amazing. I wonder if his comparison to the X-1 is right. That now the barrier has been broken, we'll see even faster designs relatively rapidly. The margin by which he went over it seems to suggest it might. I also liked the part about the models disagreeing because there was no actual experimental data. It's easy to forget that sometimes today when computer models seem to explain everything.
  • andrewflnr 14y ago
    It's oddly encouraging that there are still frontiers of knowledge in places like hydrodynamics.
  • relix 14y ago
    If I interpret what I read correctly - that because of the new design there's no turning moment, and that hence there's no point at which the boat would capsize, and all energy is thus put into forward motion, that you can just put a bigger sail/wing on it to get more energy from the wind, and go even faster, linearly with the size of the wing (minus some extra weight overhead). Basically, if true and I'm not missing something, the only limit to the speed has become material strength and weight.