by David Aldred | Aug 31, 2022
Thank you for tuning into our latest update for the project of building our jet hydroplane Longbow. The beginning of this month was spent with me finalising the drawings for the twin jet engine cradle and sending them off for our design engineer Paul Martin to cast...
by David Aldred | Jul 27, 2022
Shortest of updates for the project itself this month as I have managed to infect my lungs full of COVID 19. Also on the basis of why suffer alone and just for good measure I have passed it on to my good wife Gill who is clinically vulnerable and who you might...
by David Aldred | Jun 29, 2022
This month it was great to see our good friend Dave Warby and his team back at Talbingo Reservoir in New South Wales, Australia for a weekend of development runs with his jet hydroplane Spirit of Australia II. As we move into our summer season here in the U.K. those...
by David Aldred | May 31, 2022
We begin this month’s update with the exciting news that David-John Gibbs (who is the nominated driver for our jet hydroplane Longbow), has been selected by the RAF for this year’s Grob aircraft tutor display team. So our congratulations to DJ and please...
by David Aldred | Apr 26, 2022
This month our driver David-John Gibbs (DJ) for our jet hydroplane Longbow and myself were delighted and indeed honoured to receive memberships of the Tacoma Speedboat, which is an American Power Boat Association (APBA) sanctioned boat racing club set up by Patrick...
by David Aldred | Mar 29, 2022
Spring has definitely sprung here in the U.K. and with it the timing could not have been better of the warmer dryer weather that came with it with regards to the next stage of building our jet hydroplane Longbow but more about that later within this update. News this...
