FYI: Dec 12 MythBusters: Airplane Hour

Dudley Henriques wrote in
:

Got into racing boats as well. Really liked that. I had a place on the
riverfront in Maryland where we raced outboards. I had a D Utility made
by Sid Craft in New Brunswick New Jersey powered by a KG9 Mercury
running a quicksilver lower unit with an Oakland Johnson racing prop.
You knelt down hunkered on the floorboards wearing kneepads and held the
throttle in your left hand attached to the left side top chine with the
steering wheel in your right. When you opened the throttle, the bow came
up out of the water like a shot and went mid-air. When the boat came
back down, it was on the last several inches of the bottom near the
transom and you were going 60kts.
What a kick in the ass that was. Boy would I love to be a kid again and
go back to those good ole days for another round of "living" on the
river:-))


This one of those littel duck boat type things made out of one and a half
sheets of plywood?

It's true, you ARE a lunatic!

Bertie