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Flying Boats Soar over the Hudson

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Scientific American

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4.2639 Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2016

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Hydrofoiling boats competing in the America's Cup World Series came to New York City to show off the cutting edge of sailing technology.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:33.5

This is Scientific Americans' 60-second science.

0:36.9

I'm Steve Merski.

0:39.0

Land Rover in some better breeze at the moment, flying a hull, making some good distance back now,

0:44.2

in that breeze in the middle of the course that is slowly materialized.

0:47.6

Lee McMillan, second helmsman for the Land Rover Ben Ainsley Racing America's Cup team.

0:53.3

He was calling one of the races in the

0:54.8

America's Cup World Series New York session in the Hudson River on Friday, May 6th. Before the races,

1:01.1

Martin Whitmarsh talked about some of the technology of these boats. He was a mechanical engineer

1:06.4

before becoming CEO of McLaren Racing and then CEO of the team that will try to win the

1:12.0

America's Cup for England in 2017.

1:15.0

We call them boats.

1:15.8

We call them yachts.

1:16.7

When they're flying, less than 1% of the surface area is in water.

1:22.0

99% is in the air.

1:23.5

So these are very aerodynamic boats.

1:26.8

So we are in a program now which goes towards Bermuda next year for the 35th America's Got Challenge.

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