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The Slo-mo-shun IV on display at the Museum of History & Industry in Seattle. Stanley St. Claire Sayres (1896 - 17 September 1956) was a hydroplane racer who broke the world water speed record with his "Slo-mo-shun IV" boat.
Like Slo-Mo-Shun, but unlike Cobb's tricycle Crusader, the three planing points were arranged with two forward and one aft, in a "pickle-fork" layout, prompting Bluebird's early comparison to a blue lobster. General Arrangement of Bluebird K7 Design parameters of Bluebird K7 Hydroplane
Seattle's history of unlimited hydroplane racing dates back to July 1950, when it was announced that the APBA Gold Cup was leaving Detroit in favor of Seattle. Slo-mo-shun IV, owned by Stanley Sayres, won the Gold Cup race in Detroit that year. At that time, the Gold Cup was run at the home of the winner, so for 1951, the Gold Cup was coming to ...
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The hydroplane was powered by an Allison aircraft engine identical to the one I modified for Cobra II." [ 1 ] One of his boats, the Slo-Mo-Shun IV , won the 1950 Gold Cup , and set a water speed record (160.323 mph) in Lake Washington , off Seattle (USA)'s Sand Point , on June 26, 1950, breaking the previous (10+ year-old) record (141.740 mph ...
This will be the 56 th running of an unlimited hydroplane race in the Tri-Cities. With Peabody essentially out for the season, Shane has a stranglehold on the drivers national high points title ...
In early 1953, Campbell began development of his own advanced all-metal jet-powered Bluebird K7 hydroplane to challenge the record, by now held by the American prop rider hydroplane Slo-Mo-Shun IV.[1] Designed by Ken and Lew Norris, the K7 was a steel-framed, aluminium-bodied, three-point hydroplane with a Metropolitan-Vickers Beryl axial-flow ...
On 26 June 1950, Slo-Mo-Shun IV improved on Campbell's record by 29 km/h (18 mph). Powered by an Allison V-1710 aircraft engine, the boat was built by Seattle Chrysler dealer Stanley Sayres and was able to run 260 km/h (160 mph) because her hull was designed to lift the top of the propeller out of water when running at high speed.