Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Re: For Shadetree Sub Builders (like me)...

[VBra676539@aol.com]

In a message dated 2/1/00 4:59:32 PM, michaelbholt@juno.com writes:

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One group is the 300-foot, lots-of-lights-and-a-manipulator crowd.  
These
guys are going deep and doing things intensely.   If they built an
airplane
instead, it would be a Rutan design or a replic fighter.

The other group is building the equivelent of a Piper Cub.   It sees at
the
goal being submerged.   They're not less intense in terms of standards,
but a lot less interested in being deep underwater.

I fit into the second group.   I've considered (and even sketched out)  a
replica Bushnell Turtle, with an eye to going about ten feet underwater.
I'm trying to get the plans to a couple of other early subs, and I'd be
diving to nore more than 30 feet.

But, whatever our goals, we're in it to have fun.

I see us as the same type of guy who, seventy-five years ago, read
Modern Mechanix  and Scientific American.   Probably in a garage
that held an in-progress airplane or cabin cruiser.


Mike Holt >>

Mike--

You might want to keep in mind that Rutan's sculpted planes, Spitfires and 
Piper Cubs all have one thing in common.  Engineering. The same laws apply 
whether defending the English Channel, flying around the world, or stooging 
from one airport to the next on a Sunday morning. Same deal submerged, I 
think.

Vance