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Boats in This Year's America's Cup Fly Over the Water

submitted by pumkinandstorm

1 decade 1 year 10 months ago

(youtube) Hear from the ORACLE TEAM USA crew what it's like to fly their AC72 "17" on foils, sometimes at speeds of over 40 knots, and experience the sensational acceleration from onboard.

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Beautiful, style, grace, power everything!

Go Larry!

http://www.americascup.com/en/sanfrancisco

*promote *sports

Promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Friday, May 17th, 2013 6:28am PDT - promote requested by eric3579.

Adding video to channels (Sports) - requested by eric3579.

yup, just gonna park this boat on one of my private Hawaiian islands...

Beautiful, style, grace, power everything!

Go Larry!

This should be in the engineering channel as well no?

If only JAVA was as good as this boat.

That's crazy. I wonder if this will be as game changing as when they introduced wings to produce aerodynamic downforce in car racing?

So.. it takes a lot of energy to lift a boat like that. All of that energy is coming from the wind. So, in order for this to be an efficient design, the energy it takes to lift the boat has to be less than the energy normally lost due to drag in the water. Wow... drag sucks! (is a 'drag').

40 knots = 46mph which is FLYING for a boat. Most speed boats with engines wish they could go that fast.

It's great until this happens...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vinDX7HYWmg

CHEATERS!!!

charliem says...

...so...how many AUSSIES are on the AMERICAN team?
Kinda funny.

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