Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] flying sub

[Alex Wolfe <awolfe_98@yahoo.com>]

Pressure hull doesn't have to be entire aircraft
either - what about mounting a k-250 *as* the cockpit
of an Ag-Cat or Turbo Thrush or similar crop dusting
plane?  It's already designed to carry a *very* heavy
load (~500-700+ gallons liquid for the Turbo Thrush)
in that area.  Perhaps just a cocoon of some kind
could be slipped over engine during diving.  Maybe
pressure compensate things like fuel tanks.  It would
be good protection against items intruding into the
cockpit while crashing :-)  

--- SFreihof@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 11/4/00 6:27:09 PM Eastern
> Standard Time, 
> caribsub@coqui.net writes:
> 
> << To me the flying sub is SiFi, like in Voyage to
> the Bottom of the Sea.
>  2 different technologies that don t fit together.
> >>
> 
> A pressure hull would be incongruous with aircraft,
> yes, but think outside 
> the box.  Define your "submarine".   Ambient
> pressure dry doesn't have to be 
> heavy, particularly if you use "wings" instead of
> ballast to counteract 
> buoyancy.  That seems feasible to me.
> 
> Stan


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