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In this Boat are you Sailing or Flying?

Publication: Advanced Materials & Composites News
Date: Monday, July 5 2004

June 29, 2004 - An Australian defence scientist has created the design for a revolutionary sailing craft, based on a wing-borne hydrofoil concept which he believes will break the world sailing speed record.

Stephen Bourn, a mathematical scientist with the Australia's Adelaide-based Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO), claims his design will allow the sailing craft to travel at more than twice the speed of the wind in which it is sailing.

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