{"id":3913,"date":"2025-03-19T14:35:02","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T03:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pm.hovercraft.technology\/w\/?p=3913"},"modified":"2025-03-24T08:56:53","modified_gmt":"2025-03-23T21:56:53","slug":"skirt-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pm.hovercraft.technology\/w\/2025\/03\/19\/skirt-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"Skirt testing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We&#8217;re always trying to improve all aspects of our craft. In this case, it&#8217;s more skirt tests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this first video, I managed to capture the performance of Owen&#8217;s Revolution running with a strong tailwind. The lake is quite shallow and, at this section, the wind is beginning to create 300mm waves at around 3m pitch. Extended segment skirts are not know to adapt much to the surface, but you can see they were doing a pretty passable job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was being shaken around so much I was surprised that I got any usable vision at all. 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