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Sir Charles William Feilden Hamilton OBE (26 July 1899 – 30 March 1978) was a New Zealand engineer who developed the modern jetboat, and founded the water jet manufacturing company, CWF Hamilton Ltd. Hamilton never claimed to have invented the jet boat. He once said "I do not claim to have invented marine jet propulsion.
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 ...
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.
The Golden Age of New Zealand Flying Boats. Auckland: Random House New Zealand. ISBN 1-86941-299-0. McClure, Margaret (2012). Fighting Spirit: 75 Years of the RNZAF. Auckland: Random House New Zealand. ISBN 978-1-86979-610-5. Mondey, David (1994) [1982]. The Hamlyn Concise Guide to British Aircraft of World War II. London: Chancellor Press.
An interesting feature of all three German jet engine designs that saw production of any kind before May 1945: the German BMW 003, Junkers Jumo 004 and Heinkel HeS 011 axial-flow turbojet engine designs was the starter system, which consisted of a Riedel 10 hp (7.5 kW) flat twin two-stroke air-cooled engine hidden in the intake, and essentially ...
NZL 14, a trial boat for the 1992 challenge. Fay challenged again in 1992 with the distinctively red NZL 20.In competition, New Zealand Challenge had another outstanding effort, and progressed through the regatta to the finals of the Louis Vuitton Cup where they faced Paul Cayard and the Italian syndicate of Il Moro di Venezia.
ESPN talk show "Around the Horn" will go off the air next summer, ending a more than two-decade run on weekday afternoons. The Athletic and the New York Post previously reported that the ...
Data from Instruction and Maintenance Manual MZ34/35 General characteristics Type: Single cylinder, two-stroke aircraft engine Bore: 76 mm (2.99 in) Stroke: 69 mm (2.72 in) Displacement: 313 cc (19.10 cu in) Length: 296 mm (11.65 in) Height: 410 mm (16.14 in) Dry weight: 17 kg (37 lb) with engine mount and silent-block mountings, starter motor, manual starter, reduction drive and muffler ...