Spirit of Australia

The engine was developed by the Westinghouse Electric Company in the late 1940s and was used for jet fighters and other aircraft.

Spirit of Australia is displayed permanently at the Australian National Maritime Museum in Darling Harbour, Sydney, New South Wales.

[7] Starting in the early 1990s, Warby built a second jet boat, Aussie Spirit powered with a fresh Westinghouse J34, but he never made a record attempt with it.

[8] Warby and his son Dave then worked on a new boat, Spirit of Australia II, powered by a Bristol Siddeley Orpheus jet engine taken from an Italian Fiat G.91 fighter.

In 2007 Ken Warby handed over the reins to his son who achieved 314 km/h (195 mph; 170 kn) on a testing run on Blowering Dam in 2018.

Spirit of Australia in which Ken Warby set the world water speed record in 1978 on Blowering Dam , New South Wales , Australia. In the Australian Maritime Museum in Sydney.