Concept of a sports car on an air cushion

Engineers Michael Mercier and Chris Jones created the concept of a sports car on an air cushion and cook it to realization. This is the future of hovercraft. What’s the benefit to us chassis hovercraft? First of all these  is environmentally friendly, the large throughput and flexibility. 
However, the control system is not much different from the management of conventional cars. Even a inhibition closer to that of the wheeled transport. The matter in a patented arrangement of fans, allowing easy and accurate control this ship. 

This project will be built using light and strong materials like carbon fiber, aluminum, fiberglass, marine plywood. On a production of one model, developers are planning to spend 20 million U.S. dollars. 
The device will be a hybrid, equipped with both a gasoline engine so and the electric motor. Test flights  the first samples are scheduled on 2013, provided, that the authors of the concept be able to collect the necessary sum for the project.        

Wind-Powered Car Travels At Twice the Speed of the Wind

Which sounds weird but actually makes perfect sense

Blackbird Rick Cavallaro via Wired

A couple of years back, Rick Cavallaro and his wind-powered car--Blackbird--silenced an online debate about whether its possible for a wind-powered vehicle to move downwind faster than the speed of the wind itself by going out and outrunning the wind. Now, Cavallaro and company have reconfigured their car to travel upwind and proved that it’s possible to travel upwind at more than twice the speed of the headwind, setting what has to be a record for upwind terrestrial sailing.

That’s not quite as big of a bombshell as the downwind run back in 2010, in which a lingering and sometimes vitriolic physics debate was quashed when Cavallaro recorded downwind speeds at 2.86 times the speed of the wind. But this time he’s managed to log 2.01 times the speed of the wind going upwind--still a significant feat.

And also a counter-intuitive feat, though when you really think about it the physics are the same as a sailboat tacking upwind. The turbine blades act as sails, turning to create power. Rather than having a keel to counteract the push of the headwind and maintain the proper upwind direction, Blackbird’s transmission and wheels have been designed to do that job.

More on Blackbird over at Wired’s Autopia.

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