Is this the speedboat equivalent of doing a wheelie across the finish line on a bike?
Glad they’re ok.
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Sadly, they didn't win the Darwin award. There's always next year.
Were these terrible people or are you just wishing death on random people for making a poor choice for their own safety?
They were being reckless... to win the award, that's all it takes. Evolution takes its course.
Not terrible people. At least the owner / one of the operators is a pretty awesome man.
200 mph (322kph)
Everything but metric.
And a 'significant figures' failure too.
kph is just a stupid way of saying km/h
Am I missing something here? KPH is metric.
Americans hate metric so much that they'd rather use metric!
"kph" is an americanization. the unit is km/h. i'm assuming the commenter did not know this since the first abbreviation is not used it most languages.
Fair enough. I Googled it just to double-check before posting, but Google isn't going to tell you whether terminology is regionally correct or not.
Maybe this is an SI purist and want to see meters per second or nothing? That would be silly because KPH is well used across the metric world, of course
yeah, but the US is one of the only country in the world that writes it as kph. most countries write it as km/h. Which can be confusing.
What's a crash win?
Reminds me of the flying Mercedes CLR:
There were two seoarate incidents. Mark Webber and another guy.
I guess these guys have never heard of ground effect or air compressing at high speed.
I'm guessing none of them want to admit to these effects if you want to keep a propeller in the water the whole time.
Those effects are key to the design of these boats. They're essentially a wing.
Water has a lot more drag than air, so the more the boat is out of the water, the faster it can go.
Though it makes me wonder why they don't use actual wings to maintain control over the boat when it goes too far out of the water. Why isn't the ideal basically a plane that has a propeller sticking down into the water?
Admittedly, I don't know much about modern speedboats, but the full flip probably saved their lives. In the old days, flipping onto your head at damn near 200 mph was certain death.
Yeah, I was gonna say, did the pilot live?
Good number of hydroplane/powerboat deaths/maimings over the years...
Both lived and were not seriously injured.
And that is what I would describe as the only kind of miracle I believe can actually happen.
Roughly on par with 'bailed out of an airplane, crashed through some trees, landed in a snowbank, only suffered a few fractures and actually lived.'
Something like that happened a few times in WW2.
These guys wore safety gear and were strapped in. Read tha article
He described the relief of seeing both people on board the boat pop open the hatch. “Oh my gosh, it’s just a miracle,” Ticknor said.
Ticknor being the event organizer.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=sSl2846EPl4
The pilots suffered multiple fractures, including a broken knee.
I'd call a broken knee alone a serious injury...
Had their injuries been more serious, they may have been unable to escape the sinking boat.
Had the boat landed in a different orientation, or done a different, completely undpredictable, uncontrolled aerial manuever, such that it impacted the water with more speed, the boat could have broken apart on landing or become structurally comprised much more seriously, and thus the pilots would be sinking much more rapidly, likely with more serious injuries.
Though this boat and its safety cage performed admirably in terms of structural stability... similar crashes to this have maimed and killed a good number of folks in the history of hydroplane/powerboat events.
Yea that flip and rotation definitely saved them, you can see in the video they slow down drastically in the air while the top of the boat was pointing mostly forward, although they likely also experienced some drastic gforce changes as it happened.
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