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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.
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.
The boat's speed, beauty, and craftsmanship earned it praise as the Ferrari of the boat world. [1] The company was founded by Pietro Riva in 1842, and run by Carlo Riva through its 1969 sale to the American Whittaker Corporation.
Crusader was a jet-powered speed boat piloted by John Cobb. The combination of an aerodynamically stable hull form and turbojet propulsion was proposed by Reid Railton, Cobb's adviser. A rocket-powered scale model was tested at Haslar. The full size design was by Peter du Cane and built by Vospers of Portsmouth.
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 ...
Spirit of Australia in which Ken Warby set the world water speed record in 1978 on Blowering Dam, New South Wales, Australia. In the Australian Maritime Museum in Sydney. Spirit of Australia is a wooden speed boat built in a Sydney backyard, by Ken Warby, that broke and set the world water speed record on 8 October 1978. [1] [2] [3]
Grand Prix (GP) is a class of boats featuring supercharged big-block V8 piston engines producing as much as 1,500 horsepower. The 23- to 26-foot craft are fast—routinely attaining speeds in excess of 170 miles per hour (273.5 km/h) in the straights. This class of boat races in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
The boat attained a record speed of 47.6 knots [32] with a goal of breaking the "50 knot barrier" in 2008. [33] On 4 September 2009, l’Hydroptère broke the world speed sailing record, sustaining a speed of 51.36 knots for 500m. [34] Vestas Sailrocket, built to capture the sailing speed record competing in the B-class for 150 to 235 square ...