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Airboatcapt2
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Matt, as awesome at it sounds. The timing is more than impossible. The last hurricane has put us way behind on current orders. Not to mention the cost of a venture like this. I would love to build this kind of boat but it would be pretty unreal for costs, and time. I'm not sure what it would take to make something like this happen.
Do some more brain storming and let me know.
Do some more brain storming and let me know.
A
Anonymous
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If you don't do it, I'm sure GTO probably will 
Airboatcapt2
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Good one Red, thanks for the encouragment.
I don't get mad. I get even.
I don't get mad. I get even.
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Anonymous
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Faron, I've sometimes been accused of 'fringe' ideas, but the mahogany and brass airboat is something that I've had in the back of my mind for several years. That I just haven't ever had the money in one place to build it is the only reason it hasn't been built.
If you get a customer one day that has something like this in mind, get up with me. I've pretty well thought it through, and I'm convinced that it would be a beautiful ambassador not only for airboating, but for most
antique and classic boat lovers who love the sheen of mahogany.
Thanks matt, for liking my idea.
Ken
If you get a customer one day that has something like this in mind, get up with me. I've pretty well thought it through, and I'm convinced that it would be a beautiful ambassador not only for airboating, but for most
antique and classic boat lovers who love the sheen of mahogany.
Thanks matt, for liking my idea.
Ken
Airboatcapt2
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I think it sounds awesome Ken, when I win the lottery we can get our heads together and build it. It would be awesome to take to the boat shows.
If anyone ever wants to have one built like this, I will get in touch with you to see what you have in mind.
"you never know, someone who has a ton of money might want to build something like this".
Do you have a list of written specs?
If anyone ever wants to have one built like this, I will get in touch with you to see what you have in mind.
"you never know, someone who has a ton of money might want to build something like this".
Do you have a list of written specs?
Big feather: It is made of wood right ... so build one stick at a time. LOL well sorta anyways If you would have started it by now it would be done right?? Its only money
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Anonymous
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Faron, it's more just a vision. The details were never as important to me as the boat, because I knew I would probably never actually get to build her. I'm certainly not selfish about the details that I have thought through, though ....... I just think she needs to be built.
Sometime a bunch of us who are interested need to get together. I'll tell y'all what I have in mind, and we can all brainstorm it.
It may not be as expensive as you might think if, like Cntry says, we buy parts and pieces over time. The centerpiece of the boat would be the engine ..... it wouldn't have to be super powerful, but it would have to be a classic, something like a WW1 Liberty. All you'd be looking for is a comfortable plane with six people aboard, and if the hull design was right, that wouldn't take big horsepower.
Ken
Sometime a bunch of us who are interested need to get together. I'll tell y'all what I have in mind, and we can all brainstorm it.
It may not be as expensive as you might think if, like Cntry says, we buy parts and pieces over time. The centerpiece of the boat would be the engine ..... it wouldn't have to be super powerful, but it would have to be a classic, something like a WW1 Liberty. All you'd be looking for is a comfortable plane with six people aboard, and if the hull design was right, that wouldn't take big horsepower.
Ken
BF there is a radial or two for sale on airboat trader you might as well go ahead and get the center point so it gets started
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Anonymous
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Can't use a radial, Bro ...... it just ain't got the look of an in-line V12
K.
K.
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Anonymous
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Matt, thank you. You are a man with enthusiasm for my idea and that is very flattering. Same goes for you, Faron.
I see real potential in your idea about 'marketing' the boat, and it will be fun to see what becomes of it. If we can once, finally, get some respect for a boat that is so unique that they are capable of saving the day in a disaster like Katrina then we will have come far.
We already have some allies in the Country Music business. John Anderson is from Apopka ... ever seen the video for "Seminole Wind"? It shows John on an airboat runnin' in the Glades. Aaron Tippin owns a gun shop on the square in the little town where Ann and I were married, and he did that fine series about unique manufacturers on CMT. Darryl Whorley signed that raffle, deck-over boat that Diamondback built a couple of years ago.
We'd need the participation of a lot of folks to make this thing fly. I want to say early-on that I have no self interest in this. It would be enough for me to see the boat built, and the industry and it's suppliers prosper because of it. Rick, you can make record of that comment.
Ken
I see real potential in your idea about 'marketing' the boat, and it will be fun to see what becomes of it. If we can once, finally, get some respect for a boat that is so unique that they are capable of saving the day in a disaster like Katrina then we will have come far.
We already have some allies in the Country Music business. John Anderson is from Apopka ... ever seen the video for "Seminole Wind"? It shows John on an airboat runnin' in the Glades. Aaron Tippin owns a gun shop on the square in the little town where Ann and I were married, and he did that fine series about unique manufacturers on CMT. Darryl Whorley signed that raffle, deck-over boat that Diamondback built a couple of years ago.
We'd need the participation of a lot of folks to make this thing fly. I want to say early-on that I have no self interest in this. It would be enough for me to see the boat built, and the industry and it's suppliers prosper because of it. Rick, you can make record of that comment.
Ken
Airboatcapt2
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That was a low blow Jeff, but I did get a chuckle. I may not have killed any doves with you, but I can shoot. We will have to do it again sometime so I can redeem myself.
Waterthunder
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Awesome post Jim, I love reading about those motors I have always wanted to work on one. I saw one apart once what an incredible design.
This is the most famous aviation V-12. I saw a cut away of one in a museum in London. It is an overhead cam 4 valve per cylinder supercharged and geared motor designed in 1934. Although it is smaller than the allison it had more power in the airplanes. The unlimited boat racers ran the allison at 120 inches of manifold pressure and got a ton of power out of them. (That's 45 pounds of boost for you car guys).
http://www.lancastermuseum.ca/engine_rollsmerlin.html
Jim
http://www.lancastermuseum.ca/engine_rollsmerlin.html
Jim
Mood,
In reference to can it be done, yes. But there are problems, mainly the prop. It's going to have to be very big and torque will be a problem. Torque was considerable in the V-12 airplanes.
There was a problem in the P-51 club several years back. Many of the people that could afford to buy them were not safe in them because of the performance.
The airboat would have to be pretty big and wide. The prop would probably have to be custom made.
Jim
In reference to can it be done, yes. But there are problems, mainly the prop. It's going to have to be very big and torque will be a problem. Torque was considerable in the V-12 airplanes.
There was a problem in the P-51 club several years back. Many of the people that could afford to buy them were not safe in them because of the performance.
The airboat would have to be pretty big and wide. The prop would probably have to be custom made.
Jim