Buck Rogers-style boat didn’t work out for city




Offbeat Oregon History podcast show

Summary: Inventor Victor Strode combined aircraft design with naval architecture to create an amazing, blinding fast speedboat that looked straight out of a Golden Age sci-fi comic ... but apparently the design didn't work as well scaled up to ambulance-boat size. (Portland Harbor, Multnomah County; 1930s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1209d-aerohydrocraft-buck-rogers-boat-looked-awesome-didnt-work-out.html)