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Jeez, this thing was operational when I was in the Navy in the 60s. I think they scrapped her years ago.
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What year is this? Steel makes it real, aluminum is for beer cans, not NASCAR. Iron American Dream on YouTube. Share it. Take a ride across the promised land.
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Pegasus was cool...too bad the Navy sold them all off because of fuel consumption. Drug runners use to call them El Diablo...the Devil boats
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have you ever seen a relationship in the navy
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have you ever seen a relationship in the navy
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have you ever seen a relationship
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Thinking about Steven Hyde saying "And it runs on water man!"
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wow
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U.S.S. Obama; US Navy's Newest Jet Powered Battleship, But It Does Not Fight, Instead It Runs Away From The Enemy!
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Dummy, that was like 1969. Operated around them out of Danang. They were limited by fishing poles placed in fishing areas. These were long bamboo poles lasted together . Hard to see at those speeds and they could tear the struts off.
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And then they realized that jets are way more effiecient.
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Back in the 1970s they had these, and they were hydrofoils like these. The problem then and now is the fuel issue, so they can't go far without refueling.
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But you can't out-run an anti-ship missile...
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Sooo... turn a Civic over, put it in water, wait for vtec and you'll really be flying.
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Anyone remember PHM Pegasus on the C64?
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Why don't sof have these ? Paint them black make them small 6 man team tops .20 mile radius ,poop up from a sub inflate get to with in a mile . Infiltrate sink maybe use for the extraction if not hot or last resort .seems like a lot of different uses here ?
This educational video is structured to show the Boeing built hydrofoils named after Tucumcari, New Mexico, the design basis for the technology used in the subsequent United States Pegasus-class patrol boats and the Jet-foil ferries. Its unique feature was a water-jet propulsion and a computer-controlled fully submerged foil configuration of one foil at the bow and foils on the port and starboard sides. In its engineering history, the Tucumcari was one of two prototype boats contracted by the Navy for the purpose of evaluating the latest hydrofoil technology with a fast top speed of 50 knots. The second boat was the rival Grumman built USS Flagstaff (PGH-1). For more online information on hydrofoils go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus-class_hydrofoil FOLLOW on: https://www.facebook.com/documentarytube.net https://twitter.com/DocArchive