Thanks! Very nice of you to start a thread in English for us. >> Rick : are you on this picture ? Yes, I'm the silly looking one on the right. JB is the sillier looking one on the left. Any time you see someone driving Blackbird - that's me. https://www.econologie.com/fichiers/partager2/1289891052q1...

Thanks. I'm a little embarrassed at not having thought of that.

The Red Bird looks excellent, and it's doing something that many claim is impossible - going directly upwind powered by the wind!

I really like the French flag on top.

I've always wondered however, why is one plate a half circle while the other is a rectangle?

Blackbird Flytox made certainly a joke as usual! Welcome to Éconologie! Thank you. I was not offended because I truly do mean to be sensitive to the fact that I'm the outsider asking for special accommodation. I have no doubt he was joking. Any misunderstanding is certainly a shortcoming of my ling...

Remundo a écrit :Hello Blackbird,

Should I conclude that the French are nicer than some American ?

Certainly more multi-lingual. Perhaps nicer too.

There's no need to apologize for Flytox. I'm the outsider here. You've given far more accommodation than we could offer on one of our forums. Thanks.

Il me semble qu'une donnée vous a échappé. Normalement c'est le Français qui sert à s'exprimer sur ce Forum.... :shock: :evil: :frown: :| :x :cry: :mrgreen: I apologize for my inability to speak French. I will put my posts through Google translate, or cease to post altogether, if that's what the pe...

Good for downwind but nothing for upwind in wikipedia !! Two wikipedia entries for Downwind faster than the wind: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailing_faster_than_the_wind http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackbird_(land_yacht) I've made some edits to the first article, but none to the second one yet. ...

A good place to start is with the reports on the NALSA site:
http://www.nalsa.org/DownWind.html

If there is additional data you'd like let me know.