The DoG's got wing!





(Subject line is a bastardized quote from A.C. Clarke's 2010)

I do wonder how you are going to keep all panels perfectly trimmed, its hard enough to trim one sail let alone seven!
Or would there be some sort of mechanism or computer that does the trimming for all panels? One motor for each panel?
At the wing's base there is a spaghetti central which has lines leading to somewhere else:

I like the name coined by our own Jake Kohl. The "Deathspar" is perfect.

Wing is flying.

http://live6.truelook.com/face/newf...57&imagemap.w=221&imagemap.h=166

going up!

wow....holy cow. The second largest single wing ever constructed and certainly the only one of it's type.

FYI - in the webcam shot - those are people walking on the wing.

I second that, very well thought up.

I already like this Ac for the naming. Like DOGzilla, Cheesezilla, Deathspar, etc

Brilliant.

This AC is so much more radical in all aspects then the previous versions.

Wouter

To be honest, I didn't coin that phrase - it was someone over at Sailing Anarchy...but it's certainly my favorite over "little wing" (Jimmy Hendrix reference) or "Wingzilla". Rumor has it that Larry Ellison wanted to name BOR-90 the Death Star at some point...but that's a rumor.

I was under the impression that its the largest wing ever constructed.... besides wind mills...

there was an experimental human propelled airplane that had one solid overhead wing that was longer tip to tip...but clearly that was an entirely different category. It's considerably longer than one wing off the Spruce Goose or the modern Airbus 380.

The gin-pole is connected and everybody's off the wing now. They either broke for breakfast or.....

or... broke it?

it came up about 10* from the webcam's perspective. The "gantry" has been removed...

Erection imminent!

it's coming UP! (but I gotta go to lunch...).

GOING UP!

Is it up or down? Is that webcam live? It looks like it is down again.

down but installed

I think Rolf mentioned the "AC Deathmatch", which sounds waaay cooler than AC Cup.

still down but the wing is connected to the step and the gin-pole. They've tendered the boat out into the open water presumably so they can hoist the wing and keep the boat oriented into the wind.