When. 12 December 2022. The highest speed officially recorded for a land yacht is 222.4 km/h (138.2 mph) by Horonuku, piloted by Glenn Ashby (Australia), at Lake Gairdner, South Australia, Australia, on 12 December 2022. The yacht was designed and built by Emirates Team New Zealand. In Maori, Horonuku means "gliding swiftly across the land ...
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The speed of 222.43km/h (138.21mph) achieved by Emirates Team New Zealand and Glenn Ashby in Horonuku on 11th of December at Lake Gairdner in South Australia has been officially ratified and confirmed as the new World Record Speed of a wind powered land yacht by the World Land Sailing Organisation, Federation International de Sand et Land Yachting (FISLY).
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Speed has always been at the centre of Glenn Ashby's existence, on yachts, motorbikes- or land yachts. The quest for speed has won him 3 America's Cups, an Olympic Silver Medal and 17 World Championships in 4 different classes of boat. ... "Obviously the objective is to design a craft that becomes the fastest wind powered land yacht ever ...
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When. 12 December 2022. The highest speed officially recorded for a land yacht is 222.4 km/h (138.2 mph) by Horonuku, piloted by Glenn Ashby (Australia), at Lake Gairdner, South Australia, Australia, on 12 December 2022. The yacht was designed and built by Emirates Team New Zealand. In Maori, Horonuku means "gliding swiftly across the land ...
Team New Zealand's 46.2-foot-long land yacht, Horonuku, is a colorful, slender carbon-fiber structure with four wheels and a 36-foot-tall rigid-wing sail that burned up the white sands with only ...
Emirates Team New Zealand's land yacht 'Horonuku' was clocked at 222.4km/h (138.1 mph) in 22 knots of windspeed on Lake Gairdner in South Australia to claim ...
The design of Horonuku is for out and out speed, the target is the World Wind powered Land speed record currently held by Britain's Richard Jenkins, whose 'Greenbird' land yacht hit 202.9 km/h in 2009. "Richard's record will not be easy to beat," said Ashby. "There is definitely an element of needing the stars to align when ...
Emirates Team New Zealand and Land speed pilot Glenn Ashby have sailed their land yacht Horonuku, faster than any previous records, clocking in at 222.4kph on Monday 12 December and will now await ...
Emirates Team New Zealand and Land speed pilot Glenn Ashby have sailed 'Horonuku', their wind powered land speed world record craft, faster than any previous...
The speed of 222.43km/h (138.21mph) achieved by Emirates Team New Zealand and Glenn Ashby in Horonuku on 11th of December at Lake Gairdner in South Australia has been officially ratified and confirmed as the new World Record Speed of a wind powered land yacht by the World Land Sailing Organisation, Federation International de Sand et Land Yachting (FISLY).
Team New Zealand — normally a sailing team — set the new benchmark on its land yacht, named Horonuku, at Lake Gairdner, a long white salt lake in South Australia's far north. Pilot Glenn Ashby ...
The current wind powered land speed record has stood for an astonishing 13 years, having been set back in 2009 by British innovator Richard Jenkins in his custom built land yacht, Greenbird.
Speed has always been at the centre of Glenn Ashby's existence, on yachts, motorbikes- or land yachts. The quest for speed has won him 3 America's Cups, an Olympic Silver Medal and 17 World Championships in 4 different classes of boat. ... "Obviously the objective is to design a craft that becomes the fastest wind powered land yacht ever ...
Emirates Team New Zealand has always commissioned external contracts to keep the design team sharp and engaged during these periods. So, when the independently funded project to attempt to beat the Wind Powered Land Speed World Record emerged it was not hard to find willing designers, engineers and shore crew to put their talents to the test from being fastest on the water of the America's Cup ...
http://yachtpals.com - A British man, Richard Jenkins, has broken the world land speed record on the wind powered vehicle Ecotricity Greenbird, reaching the ...
The Wind Powered Land Speed World Record is currently held by Britain's Richard Jenkins, whose 'Greenbird' land yacht hit 202.9 km/h (126.1-mph) in 2009 across Ivanpah Lake, a dry lake in the California's Mojave. It took him ten years to achieve the result.
The four main types of land yacht are the 'Standart,' the standard model, the 'Mini Yacht' a smaller, more beginner-friendly version of this vehicle, the 'Class 3,' a larger and the fastest of the land yacht types and the 'Class 5' a version of the land yacht used more commonly in competitions. Protective Gear -
Blackbird traveling downwind faster than the wind, as shown by the streamers on the vehicle and the flag on the ground, pointing in opposite directions. Blackbird with fairings to improve performance.. Blackbird is an experimental wind-powered vehicle, built in 2010 to demonstrate that it is possible for such a vehicle to go directly downwind faster than the wind (sometimes abbreviated as ...
More than a decade ago, Richard Jenkins and his Greenbird set the Wind Powered Land Speed World Record at 126.1 mph (202.9 kph). Now, the Emirates Team New Zealand (ETNZ) is gearing up to break ...
Land sailing is an exhilarating world that blends the best of sailboats, iceboating, and fast automobiles. We've become a closed-up world — convertibles are almost extinct, office windows have been replaced by electronic lighting, and even our homes insulate us from the outdoors. But for some heretics, there's a particular ecstasy in the ...
An early 20th-century sail wagon in Brooklyn, New York. Land sailing, also known as sand yachting, land yachting or dirtboating, [1] entails overland travel with a sail-powered vehicle, similar to sailing on water. [2] Originally, a form of transportation or recreation, it has evolved primarily into a racing sport since the 1950s.. Vehicles used in sailing are known as sail wagons, sand yachts ...
Authorities in the Russian Republic of Chechnya have announced a ban on music that they consider too fast or slow. Minister of Culture Musa Dadayev announced the decision to limit all musical ...
Nikaroi combat tower. Chechnya, [a] officially the Chechen Republic, [b] is a republic of Russia.It is situated in the North Caucasus of Eastern Europe, between the Caspian Sea and Black Sea.The republic forms a part of the North Caucasian Federal District, and shares land borders with Georgia to its south; with the Russian republics of Dagestan, Ingushetia, and North Ossetia-Alania to its ...
The first 200 people to sign up at https://brilliant.org/stevemould will get 20% off an annual subscription.It's possible to sail a yacht faster than the win...
Grozny, and Chechen history, being reconstructed. GROZNY, Russia — This is the year, according to an order from a president whom few dare to disappoint, that the architectural scars of war in ...