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Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2005
15:56
Subject: [PSUBS-MAILIST] new hull design
36 vs 42 dia
hi guys
I just decided to throw out
the current design based around a 36 dia hull / with external battery pods.and
go for a 42 dia hull placing the batteries in the bilge solves a lot of
problems and give me a cargo capacity of 2500 lb.. using spiral top
batteries. I lose about 6 inches of floor space and don't have a worry about
flooding the pods. even carrying a thousand pound of batteries 200 lb. of
support equipment and four hundred lb. of crew, we will still need 900
lb. of ballast. that will be divided in to a 100 LB moveable and 800 lb.
of dropable lead shot in hollow landing gear with drop
valves
if anybody sees a problem give a
shout
Rick m