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[Typhoon1244]

"Yeah, but he was exactly on-speed..."

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[Vector4fun]

N54137

Somebody write that down, it's probably gonna be up on e-bay soon if not already.

"Cheap low-time Aztec. Only needs prop and ferry permit"

Seriously, an Aztec outta fly on one with only 4 pax at sea level.....

 

[mar]

Well if ya gotta ditch...

...chest high, 65 degree water is the place to do it.

Bummer.

 

[Timebuilder]

The Bahamian Navy released details of its new mini submarine today.....

 

[Typhoon1244]

Seriously, an Aztec outta fly on one with only 4 pax at sea level...

...or with no pax at 4 feet below sea level.

Originally posted by Timebuilder
The Bahamian Navy released details of its new mini submarine today...

Before you start laughing too hard, I just read recently that in '66, Convair was designing a submersible turbojet/turbofan-powered SEAL insertion aircraft for the Navy. It was killed when Congress started making fun of it. (I've seen pictures...looks sort of like a jet-powered Lake amphib, only larger.)

 

[Typhoon1244]

Unfortunately, the only picture I could find of the "flying submarine" online is on a "UFOlogist's" webpage.

(And I thought only the Seaview had a flying submarine! )

(And if anybody gets that reference, I'll be impressed.)

 

[Timebuilder]

Ah, Admiral Nelson (Richard Basehart), and his sidekick/XO Lee Crane, played by David Hedison.

From the same producer as The Poseidon Adventure, if I'm not mistaken.

Kowlasi (Del Monroe) was sort of like Scotty on Star Trek.

In fact, Voyage was very much an underwater Trek.

I was raised on TV.

The fuuny part of the sub webpage is the line "The company is studying the feasibility of such a craft under a $36,000 Navy contract."

That's $3000 less than my parents paid for a farm in 1963!!!


Here's a picture of the "Flying Sub", lower RH corner.

http://www.portup.com/~hjbe/voyage/

 

[Typhoon1244]

Here's another.

The problem with the flying sub depicted in Voyage... was the landing. A real flying sub would have to land like a seaplane, stop, submerge, then go on its way.

The FS-1 in the movie transitioned from airplane to sub by smashing into the water thirty-degrees nose down at 250 knots!

 

[Timebuilder]

I remember thinking as a child about those flimsy seats in the flying sub, and the incredible deceleration as the sub hit the water. Splat!! All over the front of the sub.

At least the Enterprise had "inertial dampers" to keep people from smashing into the view screen.