Blackbird – faster than the wind !
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I dismissed it as utterly impossible. Traveling through zero apparent wind, with no stored power? Impossible. Why would you even attempt it? Anyone knows you cannot go faster than the wind – on a direct downwind course.
Readers of our newsletter might remember our blog entry several months back about the weird contraption called “Blackbird”
Well the boys actually did it. On July 2nd, 2010 Blackbird set a world record going 2.8 times the wind speed directly downwind on the El Mirage dry lake bed in southern California.
