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The World Water Speed Record. Du Cane, Peter (1956). High-Speed Small Craft (2nd ed.). Temple Press. Endpapers include a sectional drawing of Crusader "Jet Boat for World's Record", Flight: 33, 11 July 1952 "Crusader: Aircraft Construction and a Ghost Turbojet for Water-speed Record Attempt", Flight: 325– 326, 5 September 1952
A drawing of the Blue Bird K4. Blue Bird K4 was a powerboat commissioned in 1939 by Sir Malcolm Campbell, to rival the Americans' efforts in the fight for the world water speed record. The name "K4" was derived from its Lloyd's unlimited rating, and was carried in a prominent circular badge on the forward hull.
It had a design speed of 250 miles per hour (400 km/h) and remained the only successful jet-boat in the world until the late 1960s. From the brief of the mid 1950s, Blubird K7 was designed [5] to: To attain a speed of 250mph commensurate with an adequate margin of static and dynamic stability in yaw, pitch and roll.
The F50 is a one-design foiling catamaran used in the SailGP race series. The name is an abbreviation of "Foiling" and "a hull length of 50 feet". [1]The F50s are adapted from the AC50s used in the America's Cup, with modifications including new control systems and modular wingsails. [2]
The German Water Police rented a Combat Boat 90H from the manufacturer Dockstavarvet for the 33rd G8 summit in Heiligendamm, Germany. This boat was involved in a high-speed chase with three Greenpeace RIBs who were trying to enter the restricted area near the hotel where the meeting was being held. A video clip of the incident was later widely ...
Thus, despite Gar Wood boats were highly prestigious (a Gar Wood boat had a price mark-up of about 1.5 to 2.5 over a comparable Chris-Craft model of same size [22]) and the brand even used their famous customers since the 1920s as a reference in their advertizing, [23] the only famous person known to have owned a Gar Wood Speedster as its very ...
After Campbell's achievement of the 300 mph land speed record with Blue Bird in 1935 he retired from advancing the land speed record. Shortly afterwards he switched his attentions to the water speed record, at that time dominated by the American Gar Wood. [1] Blue bird was designed by Fred Cooper and built by Fred Goatley of Saunders-Roe.
No-Vac at speed, 1933 Miss Jarvis on transport trailer, 2010 Hydroplane Miss America II on the Maumee River in Toledo, 1920. A hydroplane (or hydro, or thunderboat) is a fast motorboat, where the hull shape is such that at speed, the weight of the boat is supported by planing forces, rather than simple buoyancy.
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