{"id":22981,"date":"2009-11-10T16:03:51","date_gmt":"2009-11-10T23:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=22981"},"modified":"2009-11-10T16:03:51","modified_gmt":"2009-11-10T23:03:51","slug":"sailing-americas-cup-the-fixed-wing-is-in-americas-cup-sailors-plan-to-use-rigid-carbon-fiber-airfoil-on-us-entry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=22981","title":{"rendered":"Sailing America&#8217;s Cup &#8211; The Fixed-Wing Is In: America&#8217;s Cup Sailors Plan to Use Rigid Carbon-Fiber Airfoil on U.S. Entry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The U.S. team for the America&#8217;s Cup is replacing its boat&#8217;s mast and cloth mainsail with a hard, fixed wing that is 80 percent larger than a Boeing 747 wing, not to mention difficult and dangerous to maneuver<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">After more than a year of practicing for the America&#8217;s Cup, the U.S. team is replacing its boat&#8217;s lofty 60-meter mast and 620-square-meter cloth mainsail with a hard, fixed wing that is 80 percent larger than a Boeing 747 wing and will tower 58 meters above their giant trimaran&#8217;s deck. The team, known as the BMW ORACLE Racing Team, will start to practice with and evaluate the high-strength yet lightweight carbon-fiber wing on its 27-meter carbon-composite trimaran later this week&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article.cfm?id=americas-cup-fixed-wing-sail\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. team for the America&#8217;s Cup is replacing its boat&#8217;s mast and cloth mainsail with a hard, fixed wing that is 80 percent larger than a Boeing 747 wing, not to mention difficult and dangerous to maneuver After more than a year of practicing for the America&#8217;s Cup, the U.S. team is replacing its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boating","category-sailing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22981"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22983,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22981\/revisions\/22983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}