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Water
Rescue Boats Show Off Agility |
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Skidding across shallow waters
in the Driftwood River, the
Bartholomew County Water Rescue
and Recovery team’s new airboat
nimbly maneuvered around downed
trees and other debris. It even
slid across a sandbar to get
past an old tree trunk that
blocked the span of the river as
the team tested the boat.
Sheriff’s Maj. Gary Myers, the
airboat’s pilot and water team’s
commander, slowed the boat and
pushed the control stick with
just a finger to demonstrate how
easy the craft is to control.
The machine’s agility is just
one of the differences between
the new airboat and the one it
replaced, Myers said. The boat,
acquired about a month ago, is
one more step in an 18-month
effort to improve the county’s
water rescue team. The team also
recently acquired two newer
johnboats for the price of just
$400 each and is training more
divers to handle situations from
evidence recovery to ice
rescues. The Water Rescue and
Recovery team groups members
from agencies including
sheriff’s deputies, police
officers and firefighters to
respond to emergencies on the
county’s rivers and lakes. The
recovery Friday of two vehicles
discovered in the East Fork
White River in southern
Bartholomew County provided an
example of some of the team’s
recent work. The team, which
grew out of the county’s former
Swift Water Rescue Team, places
more of a focus on diving and
recovery than just rescue
boating. “We’re here to save
lives,” Bartholomew County
Sheriff Mark Gorbett said. “(The
team) is another tool to use. We
want to have the best equipment
we can, and it’s just taken time
to get that.”
So far this year, the team has
responded to 11 calls, which
included stranded vehicles, home
evacuations and rescues of
people swept away in powerful
water surges.
Story courtesy of
The
Republic, Columbus,
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Stan Floyd, President of
American Airboat Corporation,
was on History
Channel’s Top Gear. Don’t miss Stan Race
his AirRanger Airboat on asphalt
against Tanner Foust.
Watch the
Video
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American Airboat
Corporation finishes an 8 AirRanger
order |
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WE WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE
BORDER PATROL FOR ALL YOUR
SUPPORT AND BELIEVING IN
AMERICAN AIRBOATS TO THE HELP IN
OUR SAFETY AGAINST BORDER
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SERVICE DISABLED VIETNAM VETERAN
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Stan Floyd, 62, jumps
a six-foot pile of logs
in his AirRanger |
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Airboat
manufacturer draws
attention to Sabine
River litter & his
AirRangers’ integritiy
By Jennifer Johnson
Orange County Editor |
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At 62 years of age, Stan
Floyd could be
contemplating retirement
from the career he’s
held for the last
48-plus years or
plotting on a relaxing
vacation far away from
the hustle and bustle of
business life, but
instead the Orange
businessman spent a
recent Friday jumping
logs stacked more than 6
feet high- using an
AirRanger on dry land.
Floyd, owner and master
builder of American
Airboat Corporation, set
out on the mission to
exemplify the ruggedness
of the product his
company offers. American
Airboat general manager
Sallie Haynes, who is
also Floyd’s daughter,
said her father has been
perfecting the craft of
constructing airboats
since the age of 14, and
he hasn’t shown her any
signs of leaving the
business any time soon.
"He’s had about 48 years
of experience
manufacturing airboats,
including the signature
line we carry,
AirRangers,” she said.
“he’s also probably had
about 48 years
experience jumping logs
like this, too”
Haynes said the extreme
log jump feat, although
undoubtedly fun for
Floyd, has a purpose in
ensuring the boat hull
can withstand any
mission posed on the
equipment by airboat
purchasers. She said the
handcrafted AirRangers
have had many uses for
buyers over the years,
from being a fixture in
hung and sporting
ventures to performing
varied functions in law
enforcement and search
and rescue teams.
Airboats are also used
in a wide variety of
application where access
is a problem, she said,
and are particularly
useful in navigating
wetlands, shallow water,
obstructed waterways,
bogs and swamps.
Stripped down racing
airboats can reach
speeds over 135 mph on
smooth, shallow water
and can reach this speed
in 4 seconds, according
to an article in U.S.
Airboat magazine.
American Airboats’
crafts, as demonstrated
by Floyd’s log jump, can
also make treks on land.
Floyd currently holds
the official land record
of 47.76 mph, which was
set in a standard
American Airboat. |
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AirRanger at the Houston
International Dragway in
September 1995 |
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Aside from the notoriety
Floyd himself brings to
the Orange airboat
business, big name stars
like Toby Keith and
governments from all
over the world have
commissioned their very
own American Airboat
AirRanger.
“We custom manufacture
every boat,” Haynes
said. “We probably make
about 50 a year; they
take time to construct.”
Haynes said every detail
of the airboat is
painstakingly precise
and tested to points
beyond what is promised
to give customers the
quality they have come
to expect from the
family company.
The crew of American
Airboats will again pu
the quality and
durability of the
product it sells to the
test when it teams up
with the Texas General
Land Office to organize
a water cleanup
excursion of the Sabine
River and the Blue Elbow
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Floyd and his crew pulls
in abandoned boats
littering the river. |
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Orin Knutson, Eric Nice and Troy Solem
(left to right), the three main
airboat drivers with the Oslo, Minn.
Volunteer Fire and Rescue
Department, say the would be lost
without their airboat and would need
to call the Coast Guard or a
helicopter in an emergency.
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Published March 19, 2011
www.grandforksherald.com
Herald photo by John Stennes |
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Faron Floyd V.P. of American Airboats
will be heading out to exhibit a new
2011 18’ Rhino Edition AirRanger in
Columbia MO at the Missouri Deer
Classic show held March 5-6, 2011 at Boone
County Fairgrounds. Ya’ll come out!
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| Put-in-Bay
firefighters and a volunteer on Monday
rescued an islander who fell into the
lake and pulled himself onto an ice
floe. |
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The
39-year-old man’s identity could not
be immediately confirmed, but
Put-in-Bay dispatchers said he’s a
Put-in-Bay resident. The man was
riding an ATV on a swath of lake ice
between Rattlesnake and Middle Bass
islands when he fell into the lake
just before 5 p.m. It’s unknown if he
was on the ATV when the ice broke, or
if he was on foot. After about five
minutes in the frigid water, he was
able to pull himself onto a large
chunk of ice. He then had to wait
until firefighters and volunteer Todd
Blumensaadt, who owns an airboat, were
able to reach him and whisk him away.
Put-in-Bay emergency crews treated him
at the scene for injuries that were
not life-threatening. Dispatchers said
it’s also unknown if the man was
fishing, though early reports indicate
his ATV sank in the water. Three ice
fishermen were also rescued over the
weekend when their guide’s trailer and
ATV broke through the ice in the same
area, between Rattlesnake and
Put-in-Bay islands. On Friday,
meanwhile, firefighters had received a
report of an ATV rider suspected of
falling in the water in the same area.
An hours-long search by U.S. Coast
Guard crews and Put-in-Bay
firefighters turned up nothing, so it
was called off. |
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American Airboat Corp. is proud to
announce its third boat going to
Russia!
Models not included! This longtime
American Airboat Supporter and avid
duck hunter is ready to take his newly
purchased third Airboat to Siberia and
get his hunt on.
Thanks for all your support!
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