Flying Submarine

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An airborne submarine, dive plane or aerosol is a combined submarine and floatplane. We want it to be able to go both by plane and undersea. Based on the sea level is also planned. As the design demands of a submarine are virtually the same as those of an aeroplane, the power required of such a design is generally rather modest.

In the middle of the twentieth millennium, the Soviet Union began to build a navy consisting of battle vessels, air carrier and other vessels. During the Second World War, the Soviet Union attempted to create a flying submarine whose manufacture never went beyond the stage of designing. A flying submarine was led by Boris Ushakov at the Niaval Engineering Institute.

While studying at the Dzerzhinsky Marine Engineering College in St. Petersburg, which he completed in 1937, Boris Ushakov submitted a design for a design that would combine the abilities of an airplane with those of a submarine. In fact, this design showed a submersible water plane. During the following years, the design was reworked and presented in several variants so that it could test the capacitance and longevity of individual parts.

The " flying submarine " proposal was examined and assessed favourably by the Armed Services Research Commission in July 1936. However, the EESC suggested continuing the exercise and testing its feasibility through calculation and laboratory testing. 1937 the idea was incorporated into the W scheme (Russian: ?) of the commission.

Nevertheless, the operation was terminated after a reassessment. Ushakov, when a "1st grade army technician" in the "W" section of the commission carried on the scheme in his free hours. It was to be constructed as an all-metal structure with 100 nodes in the atmosphere and 3 nodes undersea.

Motors should be closed under submerged conditions with metallic plate. A flying submarine was to accommodate six airtight compartments in the fuselage and wings: 3 compartments for the hermetic sealing of the 3 airplane thrusters (AM-34; 1000 hp; at the start of 1200 hp with the turbocompressor ), as well as the hermetic sealing of the pilots compartment, one compartment for the storage and another one for the electrical propulsion.

Any other voids in the airplane should be flushed with fresh air when submerged. Estimated 1.5 min preparatory and immersion times. It is recommended that the instrument panel be submerged after the flying instrument has been submerged into a watertight well. Captain, the crews were to penetrate the rear commander and steer the sub from there.

The parts were to be submerged in fresh air and therefore did not have to be adapted to the immersion time. It should come in automatically through open valve. Tanks for fuels and lubricants should be placed in elastic tanks in the fuselage of the flying submarine.

The flying submarine should be protected against rust with specific paint and varnish. There are two brackets specially designed for 18-inch Torpedo should be placed under the fuselage. Capacity should be 44. It is a value typically associated with airplanes of that age.

Surplus rainwater should be removed from the empty space for the surface covering. Flying submarines should be used on the open seas for offensive actions against enemy vessels. He should follow these vessels and wait for them to come underwater to the planned course.

If the enemy vessel does not get close enough, another attempt should be possible. Therefore, the flying plane should have appeared after the enemy vessel had been out of range, tracked it again and expected it again at the right place. A flying submarine should fly through the landmines in the open sea and then end up in an opposite prohibited area, cove or marine station at dark, dive and act as a submarine.

In the daytime, it would have been able to collect information about enemy troops, identify navigationable waters or use an occasion to invade. In particular, the combination of multiple-flying U-boats provided great chances. Theoretically, three flying U-boats could have formed a 15 km long corduroy sanitary corduroy, which could obstruct the enemy ships' path.

It was intended to counteract a drawback of U-boats, namely their poor maneuverability. Particularly high were hopes for the capability to replicate attacks with a brief fly to another target if enemy vessels did not come close enough. It was considered one of the major benefits of the flying submarine.

Donald Reid in 1961 sketched and constructed a single-seater ship (32.83 feet long), which is both airworthy and submersible, the Reid Flying Submarine 1 (RFS-1[4]). One flying submarine was a characteristic in: New Adventures of He-Man have a submarine that is able to travel in the air and even in outer-space, called "Astrosub".

The Mystery of the Swordfish (1946) focuses on the invention of the swordfish, a submarine combatant capable of defeating an entire force alone in the 1950s, when the Third World War raged. Three Stooges in Orbit shows a single inventor's craft that is a submarine, fuel cell, chopper, and spacecraft combo.

On the Gerry Anderson Supercar range, the auto itself was a supercar, airplane and submarine. Gerry Anderson's UFO serie includes the SkyDiver, an airplane that was taken off from a submarine. The fictitious empire of the rising sun uses flying U-boats (waterproof air defence and aerial surface defence) as part of its armed forces in the Red Alert 3 franchise.

American Hero ( Hasbro, the accompanying animation and Marvel & Devils Due Comics) presented on a regular basis the assault boat SHARK, which was capable of air and dive attacks. She' s able to turn into both a submarine and an airplane. You can find a lot of flying dive boats in the videogame X-COM: Terror from the Deep. Just click here.

Hop up "The Flying Submarine or Underwater Seaplane." Flies. Skip up ^ DARPA, "Submersible Aircraft Proposers' Day Conference" (accessed 12 July 2010) Archived on 5 July 2010, at the Wayback Machine. Skip up ^ DARPA, "Submersible Aircraft" (accessed July 12, 2010) Archived on June 15, 2010, at the Wayback Machine.