Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] X-1 midget sub

[Gregory Cotton <gregc02@gmail.com>]

Carsten,

Thanks for the info.

Do you have any more info on the V40? I can't find anything on it and
everything I can find on the X-1 says Fairchild built it; but there
isn't much info on the build.

The V80 seems to have better documentation.

Thanks again,

Greg



On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 3:13 AM,  <MerlinSub@t-online.de> wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ship/ssx-1.htm
>
> The SSX1 was just the restored Walter V40 build from 1944-45 and scuttled in Mai 1945 in Kiel close to the Walter factory at Tannenberg in the Kiel-Channel about 98% finished build, search and raised in about 1946 by US forces.
> Transfer to US and restored/rebuild at Fairfield from abt.1948 to 1955.
>
> Good pictures of the bigger brother Walter V80 are on the end of this page:
> http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1282168
>
> http://www.uboat.net/types/v80.htm
>
> Both the V80 1939-1945 and the V40 1944-1945 are never offical parts of the Kriegsmarine.
>
> Some Sources shows also a VB60 or later V60 (V=Versuch B=Boot 60= Gesamtformverdrängung = overall outside displacment in ts) but this boat was not build. In "Walter-U-Boote" von Emil Kruska and Eberhard Rössler, Wehrwissenschaftliche Berichte Band 8 Lehmanns Verlag Munich 1969 page 39 is a General Arrangement Plan of the VB60 which is also very close to the SSX1.
>
> vbr Carsten
>
>
> "Gregory Cotton" <gregc02@gmail.com> schrieb:
>> Actually, Fairchild Aircraft built the X-1 (about half the web
>> articles list "Fairfield Aircraft" which is somebody's misprint or
>> mistake that's been copied). Fairchild Aircraft didn't buy Republic
>> until 10 years later in 1965.
>>
>> http://www.williammaloney.com/Aviation/SubmarineUSSNautilus/SSX1/pages/07SSX1Plaque.htm
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_Aircraft
>>
>> Fairchild Republic brought us the wonderful A-10 Warthog!
>>
>> It's amazing how much misinformation perpetuates itself on the web.
>>
>> Greg
>>
>> On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 12:36 AM, Marc de Piolenc <piolenc@archivale.com> wrote:
>> > Republic actually built the thing. As far as I know, it was their one and
>> > only submarine, and I'm fairly sure the only submarine ever built by an
>> > aircraft manufacturer...at least in the USA.
>> >
>> > The fuel reservoir exploded at dockside, thankfully with nobody aboard, and
>> > the boat was reassembled with conventional diesel/electric propulsion.
>> >
>> > Best,
>> > Marc
>> >
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>> > On 2/26/2011 12:06 PM, JimToddPsub@aol.com wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Marc,
>> >> That is indeed the SS X-1. I'm not familiar with its association with
>> >> Republic if you're referring to the defense contractor. The neatest
>> >> thing about it was that it employed a closed loop hydrogen peroxide
>> >> system to supply oxygen to the diesel engine while submerged. Here's
>> >> some more info:
>> >> http://www.navsource.org/archives/08/08548.htm
>> >
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