But our conclusion of all the information we have gathered is the boat has been scrapped somewhere in the 80's. We have tried to track the current location of the 'Flying Fish' and the cocoon. The Cruisemasters were equipped with four General Motors 6-71N Diesels, mounted 2 in-line on a side. She was sold and sailed to Florida in the 1960's. Her owner was Harold DuCharme of Grosse Pte. She was one of six Cruisemaster yachts build by Defoe Shipyard in 1947/8 and sailed the Great Lakes for about 20 years. Unfortunately she does not exist any more, but ended her days as a reef. We call her the 'Third Disco', but in fact her name was 'Nataya'. It was during extraction of new pictures we suddenly discovered the long sleek yacht posing as 'Disco Volante' in some of the scenes. And the third Disco, a yacht 'Natoya' is seen in distance in short scenes. An unidentified boat is only seen in a very very short clip before it is blown up. The hydrofoil 'Flying Fish' got the most screen time. The Three Disco'sįor the filming three different boats were used. The explosion was so powerfull that it broke windows in Nassau's Bay Street 30 miles away, and sent the boat skyhigh. Several large scale models was build for filming.įor the final blow-up of Disco Volante, experimental rocket fuel was used as main explosives. The boat costed $10.000, but the total including the cocoon and modifications was arround $500.000. It was modified by 3M Shipyard in Miami Yard and equipped with a 50 ft cocoon, a katamaran, which could be separated from the hydrofoil. The boat used in 'Thunderball' is the second hydrofoil build by Rodriquez and its original name is 'Flying Fish'. The hydrofoilsystem used for the PT 20 is licenced from the Swiss company Supramar. Rodriquez has build a total of 46 PT 20's in the period 1956 to 1971. Similar models has been build on license by yards in Japan and Norway. ![]() The type PT 20 stands for "pesa tonnellate 20" - i.e. It was first used on the route Messina - Reggio Calabria, and the route was driven by the company Società Aliscafi partly owned by Rodriquez. The PT 20 hydrofoil is the worlds first ever commercial hydrofoil, and went into regular passenger service in 1956. Equipped with an anti-aircraft cannon and machineguns it tried to cover the escape of the hydrofoil. After separation the cocoon then revealed its secondary function as a weapon platform and armour-plated battlestation. ![]() When attacked by US Navy vessels, the yacht parts in two. ![]() “I thought the name was aptly suited to the Psytrance scene – a kind of contemporary disco spinning for the next generation.This spectacular yacht is owned by SPECTRE and is used by Emilio Largo, SPECTRE's no 2, as part of his disguise and to transport the stolen atomic bombs. ![]() “The name Disco Volante translates to ‘Flying Disk’ or ‘Flying Saucer’ from Spanish and Italian,” says Alex of the duo’s moniker. The two brains behind the outfit share a mutual love for beatific, banging beats live dial twisting and tequila. With a debut EP (Time Crisis) on Nexus Media and their second EP release on records, owned by PsynOpticz Records, as well as a stack of Singles releases on both local and international labels, Disco Volante is a high-flying act and a regular on South African Psy party set lists. When I spoke with Alex, I felt so inspired and we get along like we had been brothers for 20 years!” “I enjoy the more minimal sounds where I can add more attention to detail. melodic vibes,” says Honor of the collab. “I was over Hi-Tech nighttime music and wanted to go back to my roots. More than boom-boom bass and out-dated lasers: Disco Volante, the collaboration between Critical Mass (Daniel Honor) and Risky Business (Alex Inggs) makes high energy, yet simultaneously melodic Psy – clean, luminous tracks for the twilight hours.
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