He was convinced and that the vehicle would not be able to maintain a speed higher than the wind, directly downwind. By [Veritasium]’s own admittance, his original video could have contained ...

It’s a machine that can move with the wind at a speed faster than the wind itself. A fundamental law of sailing boats is that when they are sailing with the wind, i.e. in the same direction as ...

At this angle, the model boat moves as far forward as the simulated wind ... Mould then hypothesizes that surely this means you could pull the sail in even sharper and go even faster.