rick bernotas
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Flight distance : 194944 ft
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ImHereToCrash Posted at 2017-8-25 18:06
oh yea i find it amazing as well that now we can essentially have a camera man in the sky automatically following, and tracking and getting the right angle and keeping pace, and all for $500 new retail. i find that amazing and im really into tech and follow tech alot. the tech scene moves way faster and in ways no one can truly predict. i showed off my spark i used to own to my dad and he was stunned out of his mind how something so small was able to do so much and completely on its own.
sidenote: only 70HP? that prop must be really amazing to wake up and move like that. either that or 70Hp is a really conservative rating and its chucking out a lot more HP that didn't know about. i seen lesser pontoons with double that power struggle to wake up like that and move so freely.
Yeah, it's 70 hp, a Suzuki 4 stroke. Look them up, you can get them in slightly higher and lower hp ratings as well. I'm not an outboard motor guy, but as I understand it its similar to car engine hp ratings...an outboard may have a 300hp rating, but if all of that comes at the wrong rpm range, you'll almost never use it...
I think these suzukis put all of the hp right at the rpm range where you will use it most. So the hp curve is better than most outboards. At least my old man raves about them. He then additionally swapped out the prop the marina put on there, with one that keeps it in the optimal RPM range more frequently. He said it is the best outboard he has ever had. You have to get over the fact that you won't have a big giant number on the back of your engine housing... but who cares about that if it pulls better! |
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