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Old 11-21-08, 05:24 PM   #12
Etienne
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That thing is awesome. Seriously, just watching it go by, everybody got excited... She was doing 48 kts on Lake Erie the other day; the pilots say they saw her at 50+ on Lac St-Pierre earlier.
50+ kts ? What is that thing ? It must have one hell of a propulsion system.
Diesel / Gas turbine combo. Check out the exhaust plume... That's hot.

I heard the figure of 96 000 HP bandied about on the VHF today.
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