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20 September 2024
VIDEO So the Optimist will fly: are foils a kid’s game?
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By now, the foil invasion is at an advanced stage: appendages have crept into every form of sailing, from acrobatic to “softer”, from oceanic to youthful. Check out this video, posted by Peter Warfvinge on his Facebook profile: at SSPA Chalmers, a Swedish company active in various fields from port logistics to hydrodynamics, are flying optimists, thanks to a T-shaped foil instead of a drift blade and a rudder that is also T-shaped. What do you think?
SO THE OPTIMISTS WILL FLY
THERE ARE THOSE WHO HAVE ALREADY TRIED.
Innovative idea, but not a new one: there is a video from three years ago showing a young girl “flying” on an optimist towed off the coast of Marseille. Of course, here, unlike in the Swedish tank test, there was an obvious dynamic stability problem.
WERE ALREADY FLYING THREE YEARS AGO
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