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  2. Water speed record - Wikipedia

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    Lee Taylor, a Californian boat racer in Hustler during a test run on Lake Havasu on 14 April 1964, was unable to shut down the jet and crashed into the lakeside at over 161 km/h (100 mph). Hustler was wrecked, and Taylor was severely injured. He spent the following years recuperating and rebuilding his boat.

  3. Jetsprint - Wikipedia

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    Margaret spectated jet boat Marathons which Pat competed in, but wanted to see more of the race, suggesting a smaller, more condensed track. Events were originally held in the same natural braided rivers that had inspired Sir William Hamilton to develop the jetboat , but when the sport was introduced to Australia in the mid-1980s, permanent ...

  4. Jetboat - Wikipedia

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    A jetboat is a boat propelled by a jet of water ejected from the back of the craft. Unlike a powerboat or motorboat that uses an external propeller in the water below or behind the boat, a jetboat draws the water from under the boat through an intake and into a pump-jet inside the boat, before expelling it through a nozzle at the stern.

  5. Spirit of Australia - Wikipedia

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    Starting in the early 1990s, Warby built a second jet boat, Aussie Spirit powered with a fresh Westinghouse J34, but he never made a record attempt with it. [8] Warby and his son Dave then worked on a new boat, Spirit of Australia II, powered by a Bristol Siddeley Orpheus jet engine taken from an Italian Fiat G.91 fighter.

  6. Shotover River - Wikipedia

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    The river is used for commercial white water rafting trips and jet boating rides which operate out of the nearby tourist resort of Queenstown. There is also a canyon swing site on the river a short distance upriver from Arthurs Point. Three jet boat operators have rights to use the river, as do two rafting companies.

  7. Bluebird K7 - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. ‘Most advanced fighter jet’ will fly through Tri-Cities for ...

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    The jet’s engine creates 43,000 pounds of thrust and it can fly up to 1,200 mph. ‘Most advanced fighter jet’ will fly through Tri-Cities for 2023 Over the River Air Show Skip to main content

  9. Ken Warby - Wikipedia

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    Model of Spirit of Australia in which Ken Warby set the world water speed record in 1978 on Blowering Dam. Ken Warby MBE (9 May 1939 – 20 February 2023) was an Australian motorboat racer, who at his death held the water speed record of 275.97 knots (511.10 km/h; 317.58 mph), set on Blowering Dam on 8 October 1978.