[PSUBS-MAILIST] new sub project

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Indeed! Except mine went vertical only for emergency exit rather than as standard procedure.  It was not going to have any freeboard to speak of in vertical mode, so you would climb out in a hurry and watch her sink from under you. The method of going vertical was dropping the emergency weight, which was located at the very front. More than the front actually, it stuck out and constituted your crash bar. The sub was a "flyer", a poor man's Deep Flight. I had her 90% complete when I bought Snoopy, and the flyer project sat untouched for many years while Snoopy took up all my time and served as a classroom. The sub I'm finally finishing up now recycles the flyer hull, but redone to be conventional. Well, conventional in the sense of having ballast tanks and a conning tower - she's actually a pretty bizarre beast as the folks who come to the convention will see! My conclusion was that a flyer must be great fun but requires both unusually clear water and a vessel capable of launching the sub at the dive site. If I owned a mega yacht and cruised the Galapagos, a flyer would be just the thing. But what I'm aiming for now is radical simplicity, whereas the old one was all touch screens, servos, PLCs, and such.

Best,

Alec



> On May 24, 2015, at 7:31 PM, Jon Wallace via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:
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> Talk to Alec, he was building such a design years ago before he acquired SNOOPY and ultimately decided against it...but I don't recall why.
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>> On 5/24/2015 6:31 PM, hank pronk via Personal_Submersibles wrote:
>> Yes, you float it to the dock side, then tip it vertical to get in, close the hatch, tip it horizontal, and your away.  Saves building a CT that my 200lb sexy frame can fit into :-)
>> Hank--------------------------------------------
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