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Old 10-09-2006, 10:11 PM
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human powered jet drive

I have read about a jet drive built from a bicycle chain drive connected to a "drill-powered-pump". It was built into a canoe. and supposedly worked well. Has anybody heard of this of have any ideas about it.
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Old 10-17-2006, 04:48 PM
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I've heard about this one:
http://www.los-gatos.ca.us/davidbu/pcanoe.html
but it has a conventional propeller, not a jet drive...
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Old 10-28-2006, 08:27 PM
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Hey great link Guillermo. gota love the guys inventiveness eh !!?. Imagine one of his pedal powered gens on board , good exercise and boost the batterys not to mention pump the bilges, hey might even hook it up to the capstain ha ha .
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