Now that sure looks like a car motor to me on that thing so anyone got an older one with a a/c motor on it ?? just tryin to get the history right thats all LOL. I was raised up beliveing model a, motors were on the first airboats.
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Now that sure looks like a car motor to me on that thing so anyone got an older one with a a/c motor on it ?? just tryin to get the history right thats all LOL. I was raised up beliveing model a, motors were on the first airboats.
Airboatcapt2
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Sure is a cool Picture!
I was just checkin because I now hear quite often that a/c motors were first and then ther eis the saying that real airboats have a/c engines. But that sure looks real to me and it is a car motor LOL now if they will just tell me wher they got them darn frogs at Stan and I need some new holes you know LOL we don't ever try and clean one out we always like to leave a little seed as stan says, now if I can just get him to mquit giggin the little ones. love ya stan sharpen your gig the boat is comin along quickly now.
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Anonymous
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I wonder if those guys ever even SAW an aircraft LOL
Wonder where that pic was taken, Glades probly?
Wonder where that pic was taken, Glades probly?
cowboy
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I don't know for sure what came first Country,
The Automotive, or the A/C.
I had always been told that the many of the first boats were model A powered. Thats what I had been told.
I was gonna ask you, because I your the only one I know who may have been around when they invented frogs! Figured you might know for sure.
I that you wearing the black hat Country?
The Automotive, or the A/C.
I had always been told that the many of the first boats were model A powered. Thats what I had been told.
I was gonna ask you, because I your the only one I know who may have been around when they invented frogs! Figured you might know for sure.
I that you wearing the black hat Country?
Des Moines Boater
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In 1929 Bernie Pietenpol designed and built a high wing two seat homebuilt, wood and fabric airplane that used the Ford Model-A engine. A lot of Ford Model-A powered Pietenpol aircraft are still flying today. Below is a picture of one I built but I used a Continental A-65. I never had good luck with Model-A's when I was young and I didn't want the engine to quit when I was flying. I did have a forced landing one day in this plane when the engine quit but that's another story. No damage but I bought new mags the next day.
cowboy I think is my cousin in the hat there, lol actually i found the pic in the photo section on here and figured it was boring lately so might as well bring the car motor vs. a/c back around one more time lol.
my dad used to build and power his own boats back in the late forties and early fifties. I remember he said he used to use a sheet of marine grade plywood for the bottom and his favorite engine was a 4 cylinder crosley engine. I wish I had pictures of the boat but as a small child I remember riding in it on lake Okachobee. Since we lived in Pahokee that was where I remember taking airboat rides.
Glenn Curtiss built a boat powered by an aircraft engine and prop in 1920. I can't find a photo but one exists here:
Research Center
Historical Museum of Southern Florida
101 West Flagler Street
Miami, FL 33130
305-375-1492
It was quite large and used to test his aircraft engines among other things. I do not believe he called it an airboat because he designed the first flying boat and it was called an airboat. He also operated and airlline called tha airboat line. All of this was much earlier.
Alexander Graham Bell also claims to have been involved with the airplane engine powered boat.
jim
Research Center
Historical Museum of Southern Florida
101 West Flagler Street
Miami, FL 33130
305-375-1492
It was quite large and used to test his aircraft engines among other things. I do not believe he called it an airboat because he designed the first flying boat and it was called an airboat. He also operated and airlline called tha airboat line. All of this was much earlier.
Alexander Graham Bell also claims to have been involved with the airplane engine powered boat.
jim
The little Crosley engines are an important piece of American automotive history.
Originally designed with money supplied by Henry Kaiser (Kaiser Aluminum), they were an amazing little automobile. The engine itself was a rompin', stompin 44 cubic inches, and a single OHC design that used shims above the vaves to set valve clearance, a design that Kawasaki later used in their 4 cylinder motorcycle engines first introduced in 1973.
The Crosley block had the reputation for being nearly 'bullet proof', and they were routinely turned at over 8,000 rpm in inboard racing hydroplanes, and in Class "H" modified racing sportscars. An Italian designer by the name of Lorentzo Bandini even designed a twin cam head for the little engine, and the little Bandini racer was a force to be recconed with for several years in early sportscar racing in this Country. The little car weighed in the vicinity of 850 lbs., and could break 120 mph. All of this in the 50's, and with 44 cubic inches.
Originally designed with money supplied by Henry Kaiser (Kaiser Aluminum), they were an amazing little automobile. The engine itself was a rompin', stompin 44 cubic inches, and a single OHC design that used shims above the vaves to set valve clearance, a design that Kawasaki later used in their 4 cylinder motorcycle engines first introduced in 1973.
The Crosley block had the reputation for being nearly 'bullet proof', and they were routinely turned at over 8,000 rpm in inboard racing hydroplanes, and in Class "H" modified racing sportscars. An Italian designer by the name of Lorentzo Bandini even designed a twin cam head for the little engine, and the little Bandini racer was a force to be recconed with for several years in early sportscar racing in this Country. The little car weighed in the vicinity of 850 lbs., and could break 120 mph. All of this in the 50's, and with 44 cubic inches.