Lee Taylor's Discovery II rocket boat

[FranklinRatliff]

Originally Posted by Pericles

Returning to the subject of Ekranoplans as candidates for an attempt on the Water Speed Record, the Lun class http://www.se-technology.com/wig/htm...&code=&pic=406
is reputed to having a speed around 297 knots. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lun-class_ekranoplan

Assuming it were available and it was flown with a foil or extended keel of some kind in permanent contact with the water during the flight, who would consider such a endeavour as a genuine contender for the WSR?

Pericles

Personally, I would favor any WSR vehicle with implications that extended into the larger world beyond just racing or setting a record. For example, an early instance of a craft that set the WSR while intended for greater purposes was the Bell/Baldwin hydrofoil boat.

[Verytricky]

IMNSHO:
The speed record *should* be limited to propulsion via immersed propellor, and nothing else.

What about modifying a fighter jet to takeoff and land on the water - it has already been done! ~So that could be a contender for the WWSR!

Rubbish!

It should be limited to craft deriving propulsion from a propellor which is at least partially immerced!

[FranklinRatliff]

Originally Posted by Verytricky

IMNSHO:
The speed record *should* be limited to propulsion via immersed propellor, and nothing else.

What about modifying a fighter jet to takeoff and land on the water - it has already been done! ~So that could be a contender for the WWSR!

Rubbish!

It should be limited to craft deriving propulsion from a propellor which is at least partially immerced!

Jet hydroplanes are subject to the same blowovers and sponson walking as prop-driven boats. Drivers can still get killed just as dead in a jet hydroplane.

[TamaraLee]

Hi guys, for those of you who have talked about Lee Taylor with such high regard, Thank You! He was my grandpa. I can still remember the day we got the call that the water was too choppy and he had crashed. I was and am so proud of him. I still wish he was here today. So yes thank you for posting pics and articles... So blessed!!!