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Originally Posted by baditude (Post 4494722)

Design, wind tunnel testing, canopy construction and of course real world testing at 244 mph

Mystic is the only offshore to consistently go 200 plus MPH at the LOTO shootout.

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Originally Posted by 26awesome (Post 4494784)

Mystic is the only offshore to consistently go 200 plus MPH at the LOTO shootout.

Its fast, VERY FAST...but understand this, It has little to nothing to do with so-called design.

It's about whoever wants to spend that kind of money, and has balls of steel, nothing more. I believe Mr. Szolnack (Flight Club) could go to Skater and have Pete build him a 60' - 70' boat, add a third turbine, hell, maybe even a 4th....and go of 300mph if he wanted to do it.

That's not design, thats money talking. its simply buying shear HP and putting it inside a huge piece of plastic with enough mass to "hopefully" stay in the water (at speed) while space-shuttle horsepower shoves it across the water. Thats not design, skill or anything.

A real design test would be for Mystic to build a 36', put some piston power in it, and line it up with Flight Club and see who makes it thru the traps faster and in one piece. That's how you brag about design and equipment.

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Originally Posted by jusabum (Post 4494806)

Its fast, VERY FAST...but understand this, It has little to nothing to do with so-called design.

It's about whoever wants to spend that kind of money, and has balls of steel, nothing more. I believe Mr. Szolnack (Flight Club) could go to Skater and have Pete build him a 60' - 70' boat, add a third turbine, hell, maybe even a 4th....and go of 300mph if he wanted to do it.

That's not design, thats money talking. its simply buying shear HP and putting it inside a huge piece of plastic with enough mass to "hopefully" stay in the water (at speed) while space-shuttle horsepower shoves it across the water. Thats not design, skill or anything.

A real design test would be for Mystic to build a 36', put some piston power in it, and line it up with Flight Club and see who makes it thru the traps faster and in one piece. That's how you brag about design and equipment.

God, that would be wicked awesome.