Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] magazine article

Regarding aircraft operating from submarines,

After seeing this picture and reading the caption, I am totally amazed by the implication that this jet was simply strapped to the deck when the submarine submerged. In my mind, aircraft are simply too complex and fragile to be subjected directly to the ocean, let alone the pressures a submarine might encounter on a military mission. Just out of curiosity and amazement, does anyone happen to know how they kept the water and pressure from damaging the jet?

Shin

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From: "Samuel Eisenberg"
Reply-To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
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Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] magazine article
Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2001 19:41:07 -0600

try
http://pub31.ezboard.com/fboatsfrm1.showMessage?topicID=601.topic
or
http://www.skyhawk.org/aus_sub.htm

Not Convair (I remember that Convair had some delta winged plane that had water-ski things and could take off from the water. There's one outside the aerospace museum in San Diego. Anyone know more?), but the same idea. Air & Space had an article on the Japanese folding airplane that launched from a sub in WWII a couple of issues ago.