Tempo Alcoa

The Tempo Alcoa was a jet-powered hydroplane designed and built by Les Staudacher, using Aluminum Company of America (ALCOA) aluminum. Hydroplane driver and band leader Guy Lombardo for the sake of setting a new world speed record on water.[1]

In 1959, Lombardo was attempting a run on the absolute water speed record with the jet engine-powered Tempo Alcoa when it was destroyed on a radio-controlled test run doing over 250 miles per hour (400 km/h).[2]

A new record was never achieved by the Tempo Alcoa.

References
  1. Guy Lombardo, Les Staudacher and the Tempo Alcoa (1960)
  2. "U.S. Jet Boat Aims For World Speed Record". Popular Science, December 1959, p. 94.


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