Propeller Damage - Vintage Hydroplanes
This boat was repaired and sadly was involved in a deadly accident the next season in Guntersville, Alabama. This Staudacher built hydro was formerly the Water Bug owned by Sam Guerino. Another accident that happened during the 5 minute gun when this red boat pulled out of the pits, entered the course and went into the first turn.
List of fatal accidents in motorboat racing - Wikipedia
As motorboat racing is a dangerous sport, many individuals (including drivers, crew members, officials and spectators) have been killed in crashes related to the sport, either in a race, in qualifying, in practice or a private testing session. For example, in offshore powerboat racing, one racer dies each year from accidents. Although a push ...
Top 10 Most Spectacular Hydroplane Crashes - YouTube
A countdown of the most spectacular crashes ever to happen in Unlimited Hydroplane Racing
Unlimited Hydroplane Crashes - 1966 Black Sunday - YouTube
Ron Musson perished in a hydroplane accident on the Potomac River. Hours later, drivers Rex Manchester and Don Wilson also died when their boats collided. It...
Miss Thriller – The Vintage Hydroplanes
2012年11月6日 · Nine passengers aboard Miss Thriller died in the accident. She sank in 90 feet of water more than one-half mile south of Dixon Beach. Miss Thriller was pulled to the surface, towed to Terrace Park Beach and hauled onto shore July 3, 1930 to salvage her twin airplane engines. What happened to her hull is not clear.
Ron Musson's Fatal Crash @ Potomac River 1966 - Dailymotion
2023年12月5日 · The combined deaths of Ron Musson, Don Wilson and Rex Manchester resulted in the deadliest loss of life in a single day, in unlimited hydroplane racing history. The first accident occurred on the first lap of the preliminary heat 2-B. Ron Musson, a triple American Power Boat Association (APBA) Gold Cup winner, was piloting the radically ...
Laura 3 - Historical - Vintage Hydroplanes
During the first official attempt at the straight-away pass the boat went airborne into a loop killing Mario Verga. The reasons of the fatal accident are different: the front wind of that day pushed the boat to take off, others stated after the inspections of …
Donnie Wilson & Rex Manchester's Fatal Crash @ Potomac River …
2023年12月5日 · The combined deaths of Ron Musson, Don Wilson and Rex Manchester resulted in the deadliest loss of life in a single day in unlimited hydroplane racing history.
An Era When The Hydros Reigned Supreme - The Seattle Times
1991年8月4日 · Fourteen people have died in unlimited-hydroplane racing accidents since 1951, when the sport first came to Lake Washington: 1951: Orth Mathiot, driver, and Thom Whittaker, riding mechanic,...
Top Hydro Drivers Killed in U.S. Hydro Tragedy - Hydroplane …
Washington — Three speedboat racers — two of them the top drivers in the business — were killed Sunday in the President’s Cup Regatta on the Potomac River. The three were: Ron Musson, driver of Miss Bardahl; Rex Manchester, driver of Notre Dame, and Don Wilson, driver of Miss Budweiser. Both Musson and Manchester were from Seattle.