British A/S class tethered hydroplane

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Uploaded by on Oct 4, 2008

British A/S class tethered hydroplane, powered by single cylinder steam engine fed from high pressure flash boiler. More details to follow. For further detailed information and history of tethered hydroplane and tethered car racing please visit http://www.onthewire.co.uk

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  • smoooooke on the waaaaaterrrrr... kikass!

  • @apbriggs07 Time 5 laps (in seconds) and then use 1118/time. This will give you the actual speed (not scale speed) in mph. I was there that day, it was circulating at just under 120mph. On t he next run it went a bit quicker and flew! info, each lap is 100m, we always time over 500m, normally using 2 or 3 watches - they are normally within a few hundreths of a second.

  • Great video! I have been fascinated with flash steam plants for many years. H.H Grove's mini plant for an airplane has particularly intrigued me. I've built a lot of engines and boilers (traditional low pressure) and can appreciate the engineering in your plant. Great job!

  • were for the fire at the begin???

  • Amazing excellent post

  • i didnt know steam engines an that fast. Are you running a flywheel

  • wow that doesn't look like fun.

  • At the start I was like why is he setting a two stroke on fire? And then I found out it was a steam engine hahaha

  • oh my god.. that is just awesome

  • can you say doppler?

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