Has anyone spotted the London Gazette notices:

1 - Nigel Macknight (company MD and boat driver) has been declared bankrupt,

2 - The Quicksilver company itself is being struck off the British Companies House register and will soon no longer exist?

Quicksilver WSR Ltd was struck off as a company on 1st September 2009. A new company now appears to be in charge QWSR Ltd. Companies house return shows a two director limited funded company.

Is this project going to survive

Ozzie Osborn is a burnout, so is Ken
Warby. After doing a little journalistic research, it is easy enough for anybody to prove that his
statement "I designed and built her
myself" was not true. 7 known hydroplane designers had collaborated the Spirit design that was built. Warby had given no input to that part of his claim.
During the build, there was always a design engineer present and
actually doing the internal structure
fabricating and construction. He did
not 'build it himself'.
Also he did not give $67.00 for the
engine as promoted, but rather $1,067.00.
Truth is, he has lost his nerve to
rechallenge and like Osborn lives in
the shadow of a past event that
was surrounded by non-truths, and chooses to stay stuck there in an environment of lies. How can a perpetual liar be held up as a hero?
Only by those not willing to do their own homework and dig out the truth.

Were are all these so called boats? I can have mine on the water within months with minor sponsorship. @ boats ready to go, 210 mph outboard outrigger and a 25' version for outright record.

So I mispelled a word ! Just asking a question since it's been 10yrs of announcements.

YES IT WILL,....WE ARE WORKING ON IT....quietly......, it is a bit more engineering involved than you may think, ....just to strap a jet or rocket engine on a boat, it will get you killed like many others that tried already. One has to understand the physics involved and work with them not against them ....if you want to be successful and survive you have to think outside the box,......way outside! We will make a public anouncement after all the engineering is finished and the construction is in progress.
No we are not a "consortium of businessmen and engineers" like,... now defunct American Challenge,
we are just some normal people with a little comon sense,......and little help from the brightest aeronautical engineers in the country. No, you don't need a million dollars to make it happen.
Andy Munteanu, mach1enterprises@yahoo.com

do you know or who has the list of current people trying to go for warbys record

I have written a book - 'The Fast and the Forgotten' on the history of the World Water Speed Record. Out in September.

We are continuing to move forward with the boat build, but are not envisaging having flying controls in the sense you imply to alter the craft's pitch angle in real-time. We want to keep faith with the record-breakers of yesteryear and do it on much the same terms as they did.

That said, I think the future of the World Water Speed Record will one day rest on a new generation of craft that have flying controls.

Nigel

I too have driven a surface prop powered craft, though at nothing like the speeds you folk are talking of (18 foot Tremlet mono hull, 75 mph water speed under Richmond bridge on the Thames - faster in real terms coz on outgoing tide - and yes I do know it's an 8 knot limit, got nicked for it) and yes it is very much about flying and balancing, even at that speed on a river (we once ran into a gentle swell at sea at a smidge over 85 mph having gone around a mill pond-like Torbay out of Brixham building up speed and spent a LONG time in the air!) Anyway, the idea of 'adaptive aerosurfaces' and continuingly monotoring the substrate (ie the water) has been in my head since that time (late 1970s - we used a home-brew doppler shift ultrasound setup to measure water speed)