Best to use those ceramic tiles that line the bottom of the space shuttle. They can go to very high temps but cool off v fast as well (useful for...
Steve - but is it propulsion? With super-conductive materials and very high output batteries providing temperature control over a foil designed in...
Steve, I guess what you are saying is that high speed sailing on water is mainly a question of hull design - the sailwing/foil is already proven...
Well put SailDesign. Any ideas on antonfourie's design question?
But heroics aside, by creating your own air-flow with hot and cold portions of a sailwing... you could do 20 knots in a flat calm, rising to 100...
Frosh - this should really get you going... What about super-cooling the luff while heating the leach? Mega-turbo!
Just read Yachting World article about breaking the speed sailing record. There's an Aussie guy who doesn't think 100 knots is out of the...
