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speaking of getting it up........
.........Tim gave me these at the reunion to post. It occurred during kilos on the Brazos River near Waco, Texas in 1980. Tim had made a previous run with his Ron Anderson Konig and he felt the motor was starving for fuel. Tim had been turning around 10,000. Those 700 cc Konigs could really suck the fuel down and Tim figured the pop off on the Konig relief valve was blowing off to much to keep enough fuel fed to his 4 cylinder Konig. He unscrewed the brass tube, removed the spring, stretched it some, then fit it back in the checkvalve.
As Tim started to enter the traps he looked down and saw he was turning 10,400. As he was looking at the tach, he started over. Too late to bring it down. It happened just across from where the launching ramp was where you entered the river. The river that day was a little flighty with certain places that a boat would get squirrely. This is the incident where Tim's parachute didn't deploy properly and he rolled in the water with parts of the cord and chute wrapping tightly around his neck. It had to be cut off.
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was this the boat doing the flying ????
was this the boat doing the flying or it's older brother???
wayne, what's your guess on speed at 10400 rpm?