![Offbeat Oregon History podcast show](https://d3dthqtvwic6y7.cloudfront.net/podcast-covers/000/039/188/small/offbeat-oregon-history-audio-edition.jpg)
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)