Reply With QuoteYep. He was an amazing guy.
Imagine buying a surplus jet engine and building a boat in your backyard with it, then taking it out for a spin at over 500 km/h...which is still the fastest surviving boat run ever officially recorded 45 years later....
https://www.9news.com.au/national/ke...f-7617291c5b13
The bloke had some big balls...imagine doing 500km/h on water..
RIP
An interesting old short doco about the history of the speed attempts back in the day..
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q...6FORM%3DHDRSC3
Yep. He was an amazing guy.
He was a brave man theres nothing harder than concrete other than hitting water a that speed.
Too brave, one reason I gave up water skiing.Originally Posted by chris69
I must be getting old as all the people mentioned in recent months that have departed are all people I recognise fromany, many decades ago.
One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce and canonized those who complain.
Thomas Sowell
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