Mad Genius - Wind powered vehicle travels 2.8x speed of the wind

[mitt]

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.


mitt

[reksio]

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