Originally Posted by phragle (Post 4176961)

Thats good news!!!

I think the answer as I stated isn't making cats more stable. If your here, your one of us, type A people. We push things.

If you make the cat more stable, Type A people simply add more power and go faster until its unstable again, thats what we do, thats who we are.

What needs to be researched, designed and built is a safety capsule that doesnt blow apart and protects its occupants, Hatches that stay inact, windows that stay intact etc.

You can lock a bunch of rocket scientests and composite engineers in a room until they design a completely stable 250 mph boat. As soon as they leave the room and proclaim "we did it" somebody is going to find a propulsion system to make it go 300mph unleashing a whole new set of problems.Meanwhile the daredevils piloting them are relying on safety systems that are failing at half that speed.

Originally Posted by Steve 1 (Post 4177414)

we can start a thread, on Cockpits and Control systems, 20 years ago I had Cockpit adjustable Canards, which were applied to control attitude as there mounting position were well forward on the sponsons, they worked fine, now the pressures like I said we did a thread, but when you have "Experts" chime in who never built anything OR did the Basic calculations it becomes imposable to get the Point across!

Originally Posted by onesickpantera (Post 4177470)

These speeds are making the boat/airplane lines blurry.

Originally Posted by joe549 (Post 4177422)

Here is the email address

[email protected]

link to the video
http://www.today.com/video/today/55929216

Originally Posted by Bullhead (Post 4177459)

I was with Joel for most of the day Saturday and part of the day Sunday at the hospital....although nothing was broken he was in a ton of pain.....all he was concerned about was the condition of his friend Mike Fiore....On Sunday he insisted on seeing the boat....it was very emotional...he asked for all to continue to pray for Mike a full recovery

Originally Posted by charlieN (Post 4177439)

It was asked earlier if I was a pilot, yes I have been flying since '71 as well as an A&P and for the past 22 years I run a business doing design and building road race and rally cars. Boats have been a hobby since the mid 60s. I have designed and built 6 airplanes and started my performance boating by building a 3 point hydro powered by a 20H back before I had a drivers licence.

Back to matters here, there have been some good points throughout this thread.
As for pitch stability, I am sure an algorithm can be written that can provide a major reduction in chance of blowovers without inducing a stuff. A comment a few pages back was yes we can make the boats safe for the current speeds but then we will just put more power to them to go faster. Now add in an active pitch stability, that soon will no longer be a safety device but will now be used to actively raise the hull to reduce drag, OK add active roll stabilization and we soon will be lowering the drives so we can propel the boats with the hulls not touching water.

Yes to those saying nuts to all this, We do need to keep up with safety, some of my background has been in accident investigation, this has been in both aircraft an race cars. I have learned allot here. From that I would love to see how seats and harnesses are mounted. Some pictures I have seen of the suspension seats are a bit frightening.
I started my comments many pages back with the fact we will see major improvements in crash safety due to this one being survived and that Mike survived the horrors of going through this.
I expect these improvements will be addressing seat and belt mounting as well as the containment shell around the occupants. Having closed cockpits is of little value if they do not hold up at the current operating speeds not to mention when we see these boats touching 300 in the near future.
God forbid when electronics come into play here.
Sorry for the lack of providing quotes and references, I just do not have the time to do so properly.