Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] The spirit...

[MerlinSub@t-online.de]

I Peter, 

today I install the anchor winch. 
Its a standard one for motorboats. 
Just later filled with oil on a compensating back. 
Next days I will make the chain way clear. 

Over one tons of lead now in the boat. 

Tomorrow Arne will come and start to install 
the 400 V AC-Wires in the engine comparment. 

Emile send me just to portholes for the pressure 
part of the sail. 

And I order just the side scan sonar. 

Hope to get late 2008 into the water. 
No race I am slower than you.. 

See you at least on the 2009 Convention in Kiel. 

Regards Carsten 


"Peter Madsen" <peter@submarines.dk> schrieb:
> Dear Psubbers...
> 
> 
> 
> I wish to share with you some of the spirit of our "Copenhagen school of submarines"- for the sole reason that I would wish that you could be here and experience the thrill.
> 
> Our submarine, the UC-3 Nautilus got her rudder today. Her engines - both electric - and diesels are being mounted and progress is as fast as ever.
> 
> What's happening here might look like what the professionals do - but don´t be deceived - we are amateurs to the fingertips. Submarines are traditionally extremely detailed planed - and must be because it all depends on delicate balances between volume, weight, power, hydrodynamics and more. Normally you calculate and draw to the outmost detail.
> 
> We don´t. We design as we go along - keeping our options ( in every sense ) open to good ideas all the way...
> 
> Imagine at football match like that: all kicks are complex Newtonian physics - ballistic trajectory calculation at a high level; catching a ball is about as complex as intercepting a ballistic missile warhead - and it must all be done at very high speed - incredible high speed for the game to function. The human brain can do that - like it can manually fly a mach two aircraft and hunt down a bear - but it does NOT do it in a conscient way - in goes on in the spine - at subconscient level. Here the human brain is a supercomputer - with extreme multitasking capacity. One moment you play football the next - you are playing the piano...and nobody is surprised.
> 
> In our hangar on a large abandoned shipyard in Copenhagen we try to build extreme machines using methods found in the arts rather than in 
> science...the shape, design and use of our rockets and submarines, airships and balloons are mostly made by taking a careful look at a distance - and doing it...making it look right. 
> 
> Laugh - just laugh - but we have dived 1060 times - and flown like few on Kraka´s bow planes - sailed over the Baltic while shouting "keep it coming" to the rolling waves as Krakas knife edge bow cut through the seas...we have blasted a poor but courageous TV reporter to great speed on a liquid propelled rocket powered race boat...and crashed an eight meter gasoline engine powered airship into a building ...ups... :O) 
> 
> My point is - that combining you pocket calculator, some technical courage and a strong desire to explore - can be exceptionally rewarding regardless of the product that it leads to.
> 
> In a few month - April 2007 I guess - we will lit the boilers on UC-3 and take her our on her first test ride. While tiny compared to the navies boats - she still has much greater possibilities than Freya and Kraka. Standing in the sail you are some three or four meters above the waves, and to go the engine room you must go down a tube - on a long latter - to enter the fuel bunker section of the boat...while going aft you pass the wet room where the shower and scuba equipment is found and then you can open the door to the three meter long engine room - where the diesels resides on both sides of you . Turning about - you can go fore - to the galley ( just front of bunkers ) and from there into the mess - and further into the control room. Here the big flat screen shows the high definition picture form the bow and mast cameras...or you can take a look for your self via the four 400 mm 80 mm thick acrylic view ports found there...
> 
> Our Royal Danish Navy just cut away her submarine arm...but the professionals operating them - as tactical or technical officers still exist other places in the navy. There are - to put it short - some very - very skilled men there...they have recently visited us...and as you can imagine they like the color of UC-3. We have a sort of cooperation - in that they look into how we do things - both safetywise - and technically - and we have many times got some good advice. However - mostly - the pros simply vindicate our designs - that after all is based on two prototypes and salty experience...
> 
> If we succeed we will combine the seagoing features of navy submarines with the explortion features of research submersibles - and to a lesser extent - that living onboard features of motor yachts...
> 
> I hope the best - and wish you all the same !!
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> Peter Madsen / UC-3 Nautilus
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