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Old 02-06-2012, 09:03 PM   #5 (permalink)
niky
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Amick's sail-car actually does turn into the wind. In the links given, there's a description of how it had two steering wheels. One wheel was able to turn the entire car slightly to the side while the wheels would still point in the direction of travel, to change the angle of the sail against the wind.

Very interesting design. Sad that no one's doing anything like this today.
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