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About the Windjet Project |
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Windjet is a campaign to break two world speed records using wind power alone.
Travelling at five times the wind speed on land and up to 9 times on ice, the Windjet craft are probably the most efficient vehicles on the planet.
The Records to break; - Land: 116.7 mph (USA) set in 1999
- Ice: 143 mph (USA) set in 1938
Development so far;
- 2 Years and 3000 miles of testing on UK Airfields
- 3 Months Ice trials in Canada
- 1 Year desert testing in Nevada, USA
Top Speeds so far; - 106 mph on Smith Creek Dry Lake, Nevada
- 120 mph on Asphalt (not an official record as not done on a natural surface (Nalsa Rules)
- Raised the official British land record from 56 mph to 113.4 mph
Project Status; - Tried and tested land yacht stored in Reno Nevada.
- New, faster, but not thoroughly tested Land craft stored in Western Australia
Next land record weather windows;
- Nevada; March / April @ Ivanpah Dry lake
- Australia; August / September @ Lake Lefroy WA

Technical Partners include;
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