This evening I'm going to chop up some tube and flat stock and weld the skeleton of the dyno together. I'll post a view of that in a few hours. Still on schedule to spin the vehicle on the dyno this next weekend. I'm pretty confident we'll get there.
In 2009 we set out to conclusively answer the following question... Can a vehicle be built which can go directly downwind, faster than the wind (DDWFTTW), powered only by the wind, steady state? On 3 July 2010 we established a world record by going directly downwind at 2.8 times the true wind speed with the Blackbird. Now we have begun to modify the Blackbird with the intention of going directly UP-wind faster than the wind - steady state.
Sunday, February 28, 2010
I fold.
Still a lot of work to do, but overall the daylight hours were good to us today. Rick is starting to get pretty happy with the way the telemetry is working out -- he was calibrating load cells today and polishing the code.
This evening I'm going to chop up some tube and flat stock and weld the skeleton of the dyno together. I'll post a view of that in a few hours. Still on schedule to spin the vehicle on the dyno this next weekend. I'm pretty confident we'll get there.

This evening I'm going to chop up some tube and flat stock and weld the skeleton of the dyno together. I'll post a view of that in a few hours. Still on schedule to spin the vehicle on the dyno this next weekend. I'm pretty confident we'll get there.