Frank,
I saw one design that ducted the water flow from the underside of the sub
through a channel to twin thrusters at the rear just inside the fairing.
The arrangement looked really neat, however the thrusters didn't articulate at
all so all maneuvering was left to the rudders and dive planes. The
ultimate seems to be Cliff's jet-drive which does articulate.
I'm trying to keep it as simple and clean as possible. Right now I'm
expecting to have a single, fully articulated Kort thruster at the
rear, but that could raise issues of torque roll. Hopefully the model
process and the full-scale mockup (and the critiques) will help resolve
that. I might end up going with dual thrusters.
By the way, are you going to update your profile?
Jim
In a message dated 11/20/2010 12:46:02 P.M. Central Standard Time,
ShellyDalg@aol.com writes:
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