Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Re: Interesting idea

["Captain Nemo" <vulcania@interpac.net>]

Only got a second: working...

A flying sub is totally doable.  I've had one on paper for years.  Delta
wing.  About the size of a BEDE 5.  Powered by the same microjet used in a
BD-5J.  Build it out of composites: carbon graphite and acrylic for the
pressure hull.  Depth capability /  hull thickness will be a trade off for
overal flying weight.  Wouldn't dive real deep, but it would dive.  Mount
the jet on a pylon above the fuselage like a LAKE AMPHIBIAN; inside a
housing that can be alternably opened to admit air and exit thrust, or
closed off fore and aft for watertight integrity when you want to submerge.
Fuselage is a boat hull bottom like the LAKE AMPHIBIAN.  Ballast tanks are
the wing interiors.  Battery powered E-motors for U/W propulsion.  Voila!
The Flying Submarine!  Admiral Nelson, look out!

Tony: "Street legal?"  OK, no.......but I could probably give the CHP a
pretty good run for their money in something like this!

Gotta run...

Pat