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Title: Will my FT do this
Post by: CAPEHORN31 on December 13, 2012, 09:17:34 pm
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Title: Re: Will my FT do this
Post by: Michelle on December 13, 2012, 09:23:10 pm
Not if you chock the wheels properly
Title: Re: Will my FT do this
Post by: J. D. Stevens on December 13, 2012, 09:24:53 pm
Maybe if the water is no more than 30" deep.

Looks like one of those events that takes place after consumption of copious amounts of alcohol, and someone shouts, "Hey, Guys! Watch this!"
Title: Re: Will my FT do this
Post by: Dave Cobb on December 13, 2012, 09:29:02 pm
Let me think, a million dollar coach, into the water, stabilized by inflated pontoons.  Is this sort of like an airplane with floats?  Some thing that can not only fall out of the sky, but land on the water and then sink?

So what could possibly go wrong?  Having been in the boat business off and on for over 40 years, I can not count the number of ways I have either seen or heard of sinking a boat.  Now we can start listing the ways to sink a coach.
Title: Re: Will my FT do this
Post by: kb0zke on December 13, 2012, 09:43:05 pm
I've seen this a few times. There is a video out there, too. I imagine that filming the unsuspecting spectators as one drove into the water with a motor home would almost be worth the price of admission.
Title: Re: Will my FT do this
Post by: John S on December 13, 2012, 10:58:41 pm
I was in that coach. It was very heavy and was a bathtub with thru hulls for the axles.  There was a little prop on the rear. The issue is you had approach angles that limited launch locations and it was not a very good boat as it was a bit top heavy and you could not see side to side or to the rear.
Title: Re: Will my FT do this
Post by: Barry & Cindy on December 14, 2012, 11:01:51 am
We can all drive through deep water if we have the Foretravel PhotoShop option.
Title: Re: Will my FT do this
Post by: Pamela & Mike on December 14, 2012, 02:53:43 pm
These folks make a full line of amphibious vehicles other than there Terra Wind (above pic.) check them out http://camillc.com/index.htm (http://camillc.com/index.htm)

I don't know how Mike can remember useless things like this and can't remember what he wore yesterday.

Pamela
Title: Re: Will my FT do this
Post by: Rick on December 14, 2012, 05:57:26 pm
Why don't you try it and let us know?
Title: Re: Will my FT do this
Post by: MR B2 on December 14, 2012, 09:29:09 pm
Its going to cost you a lot of money in repairs if you do,
Title: Re: Will my FT do this
Post by: Keith and Joyce on December 15, 2012, 03:08:00 pm
As the pilot of a 747 once said in his flight introduction ...the 747 is magnificent plane, it can do many things even land on water, once!



Keith
Title: Re: Will my FT do this
Post by: Carol Savournin on December 16, 2012, 08:14:36 am
I think this is a case of ... "Well it CAN go into the water ... but SHOULD it go into the water?"  The way John describes it, I don't think I would find it to be much fun. 
Title: Re: Will my FT do this
Post by: Kent Speers on December 16, 2012, 08:49:08 am
Say what you will, I'm gettin one when I win the lottery!!!
Title: Re: Will my FT do this
Post by: nitehawk on December 16, 2012, 08:51:57 am
Robin Williams had an RVsubmersible.
Title: Re: Will my FT do this
Post by: Dave Head on December 16, 2012, 06:43:08 pm
A loadmaster I know on a C17 was fond of saying 'Anything can be air dropped - once'...
Title: Re: Will my FT do this
Post by: kb0zke on December 16, 2012, 07:37:42 pm
It isn't the fall that hurts, but the landing.