[PSUBS-MAILIST] new sub project

[Alan via Personal_Submersibles]

You cam have the auto return function for $70-
http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/__48219__Turnigy_T1000FC_Auto_Pilot_System_With_GPS_and_Return_To_Home.html
   They have it on remote control helicopters so if they loose signal
their GPS flys them back to the launch point.
Alan 
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> On 26/05/2015, at 3:15 am, Seaquestor via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:
> 
> Hank, Sounds like you need one of Phil's jet pack Newt Suits, that can fly back to port while you take a nap.
> 
> 
> 
> Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone
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> -------- Original message --------
> From: hank pronk via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org> 
> Date: 05/24/2015 8:12 PM (GMT-08:00) 
> To: Personal Submersibles General Discussion <personal_submersibles at psubs.org> 
> Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] new sub project 
> 
> 
> Alec,
> I am not thinking flyer at all.  The water clarity would not support the speed.  I am thinking of a simple tiny light sub that can launch anywhere even off the deck of my boat.  It is just a though right now.
> 
> For now I am enjoying my what seems gigantic bow dome.  The visibility is unbelievable, the modification cost and effort has been well worth it.  As a bonus, my payload is back to 500 lbs plus.  I had to fill the sub with steel plates to get it to sink.  :-)
> Hank  --------------------------------------------
> On Sun, 5/24/15, Private via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:
> 
> Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] new sub project
> To: "Personal Submersibles General Discussion" <personal_submersibles at psubs.org>
> Received: Sunday, May 24, 2015, 10:38 PM
> 
> 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 laun!
>   ching 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:
> > 
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> > 
> >> 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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