Wot Rocket's chance to fly blown away with a gale

Today was the day Wot Rocket pilot Sean Langman and wing man Martin Thompson were going to ‘fly’ but the opportunity was blown out of the water following a delay getting off the beach at Kurnell in Sydney’s south east.

With 30 knot nor’westerly gusts hurtling across Botany Bay and a building sea, the support team had plenty on trying to hold the 9m sail boat/plane head to wind as it bucked and reared, the breeze under the hull lifting the whole thing skywards.