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01-18-2014, 03:09 PM #151
The other story is that Aronow simply hired Dieter Schulze to come to FL and build two prototypes.
Since Mr Schulze has also passed away, we may never know.
I believe Michael would have been in school at this time and Brownie had not yet joined the company.
Possibly a combination of the 2 stories?
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01-18-2014, 05:28 PM #1528000 RPM
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Did the M.M. Missile live up to its bold hype as "the first super-speed boat", or was that a little brazen advertisement by the Aronow Company?
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01-18-2014, 05:56 PM #1537000 RPM
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01-18-2014, 06:23 PM #1546000 RPM
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01-19-2014, 07:31 AM #155
Whoever is the driver sure was hanging on until the inevitable.
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01-19-2014, 07:05 PM #156
Any tunnel boat can blow over. No doubt it was seriously over powered and tail heavy. The fact that the boat is open behind the driver with no cowling did not help. Probably a young gun driver who didn't know the warning signs.
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01-19-2014, 07:56 PM #157Member
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16 foot and dual engines, I wouldn't blame it all on 'young gun', back in the day saw a few 'experienced guns' in the same posture (they even had cowlings)
The boat on the right in the 'young gun' position was Mr. Bob Hering and the boat on the left approaching 'young gun' position was Cees Van der Velden.
1972 I think?
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01-19-2014, 08:09 PM #158
WOW!!! Keep the history coming,very cool!!! Tim
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01-19-2014, 08:50 PM #159
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01-19-2014, 10:52 PM #1607000 RPM
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The driver of Miss Magnum was Guy Radiano and I am pretty sure the other driver in the picture was Wally Quallman. Every twin Magnum Missle I ever saw I saw blow over.
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01-21-2014, 08:25 AM #1615000 RPM
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01-21-2014, 01:08 PM #1626000 RPM
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01-21-2014, 01:32 PM #163
ugh, nothing good was going to come out of the second pic.
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01-21-2014, 06:03 PM #164Screaming And Flying!
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First time I blew a tunnel over was at Iver Heath, Joe Swift and Roy Ridgell were watching, it was the big Torriggia. 1964/5 can't remember exactly
Had left the whole field for dead and was on the long home stretch heading into the wind, the bitch just did a perfect 360 -------landed a tad one sided----------twisted the steering wheel into a figure eight, pointed it straight and carried on.
Roy sauntered up and said, knew you were going over sometime today, surprised you lasted that long, did the same thing myself last week in Florida, 'cept I bent the boat more than you did.
It was the first tunnel boat to run in England, was two years before the next one came, that was a Schulze I brought in.
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