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We are back on the net, Home Page is up and running, with 100's of pics from our family albums and some history behind Ken & his achievements, covering 40 years of jet vehicles..all 3 jet boats , jet dragsters, jet Funny cars and jet truck, and home of the fastest man on water
 
Blowtorch said:
Warby Motorsport

We are back on the net, Home Page is up and running, with 100's of pics from our family albums and some history behind Ken & his achievements, covering 40 years of jet vehicles..all 3 jet boats , jet dragsters, jet Funny cars and jet truck, and home of the fastest man on water
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Welcome Ken, good to finally have you here. I've used several of your quotes, and sure wish we could have made Jupiter to chat.....
 
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lohring said:
We've been attracted to water records for a long time. First it was the gasoline engine powered radio controlled model boat record. We were the first to set a record of over 100 mph in 2003 and our record of 109+ mph set in 2004 still stands. Next it was the full size electric power record. We felt that was the only technically interesting record that was low enough no one would die in the attempt. We set the APBA and UIM records in 2008. Even though we wanted them over 100 mph the 98+ mph speed was almost twice the previous world record. The propeller driven record would also be interesting. Dan Ellison, a former model boat designer, has built drag boats that easily exceed the current record. A turbine would be more reliable for sustained (if you can call the time to go a kilometer twice sustained) power. Devils Lake might be a little small as well, even for a drag boat. All the pieces are there, it only takes money and lots of dedication.

Lohring Miller
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Very interested to see all the current projects for the WSR and who will ACTUALLY get a boat on the water.
Loring, You might be interested to know I have several new projects in the works, A completly new TopFuelHydro Plug(I won't be building the boats), A kilo outrigger for a propeller class but I'm not supposed to say yet, and the WSR boat. These are all different outrigger type hydro's specific for intended use. I can say two of the 3 will be run(tested) this summer (2013). I also built and sold one of my new circuit outrigger's that will be run as a 5ltr, Heres a photo of the 5ltr.

Regards, Dan
 
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Well, I'm looking at your boat, and I know we need its own thread.

I raced RC's back a few years, and set a few world records then in IMPBA. Your sponson design looks really close to some I have in the garage on the shelf. I am positive they are yours. I would put them on a center section we would build out of carbon/kevlar/balsa. I never thought they would have been incorporated into a full size boat.

Can you get a thread going about this one?
 
Lee Taylor's Discovery II rocket boat crashed because he was running it in water too rough for a boat with sponson angles that steep. If he'd stuck with running the boat in glass smooth water he might have been alright.

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Craig Arfons' boat was a stretched Deaver type dragboat hull. It weighed about 2,500 lbs. The engine was a General Electric J-85 turbojet producing about 5,000 lbs thrust in afterburner. For reasons nobody ever figured out, the boat would always veer off to the driver's right.

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lot0268-0.jpgA water speed record boat planned in the early eighties by Phllip Villa, nephew of Leo Villa. Like Taylor's rocket boat, the steep sponson angles would have caused a violent response to waves, creating a problem in anything except glass smooth water.
 
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