[PSUBS-MAILIST] Deep Flight Dragon

[David Colombo via Personal_Submersibles]

No rear spoiler wing for me Alan.. Happy Holidays to all..
On Nov 19, 2015 1:39 PM, "Alan James via Personal_Submersibles" <
personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:

> I've been doing a bit of homework on this.
> There doesn't seem to be any ballast tanks; just lift bags that can be
> operated internally & externally for emergencies. I have never seen
> anything more than the dome out of the water.
> It is based on quad copter operation. I will mention that I bought some
> quad copter gyro stabilization electronics years ago with view to doing
> something similar.
> Here is an entertaining Gizmag video on it.
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> Review: Deepflight Dragon - submarine meets quadcopter
> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7AIlmrRv4o>
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> [image: image] <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7AIlmrRv4o>
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> Review: Deepflight Dragon - submarine meets quadcopter
> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7AIlmrRv4o>
> View on www.youtube.com <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7AIlmrRv4o>
> Preview by Yahoo
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> Alan
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> *From:* Brian Cox via Personal_Submersibles <
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> I'm pretty sure he would charge for that privilege
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> Brian Cox
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> --- personal_submersibles at psubs.org wrote:
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> From: T Novak via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org>
> To: "'Personal Submersibles General Discussion'" <
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> Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Deep Flight Dragon
> Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2015 20:18:28 -0800
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> Alan,
> Perhaps the next PSubs conference could be there.  Hmmm.  What do you
> think, Jim?
> Bike hub motor… interesting.  It wouldn't be too difficult to make up an
> oil compensated magnetically coupled thruster.
> I like the OrcaSub better.  More my style, and local of course.
> Tim
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> *From:* Personal_Submersibles [mailto:
> personal_submersibles-bounces at psubs.org] *On Behalf Of *Alan James via
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> *Sent:* November-18-15 7:58 PM
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> Hi Tim,
> yes it would be difficult to get in to that in anything other than a mill
> pond;
> & I wonder about the stability also; the way the bouyancy seems to be
> placed low down.
> From the videos I've seen it looks like the hatch can only be opened from
> the outside,
> could be wrong though.
> The large diameter thrusters look like they could be made from bike hub
> motors. They
> are the right voltage at 40V & are only 1500W. They are direct drive &
> getting their torque
> by using large diameter narrow motors.
> There are some good photos of the fuselage & hull in the links on this
> page.
> He is not scared to think outside the box.
> Love a visit to his workshop. Would fly over for that :)
> http://www.deepflight.com/category/news/
> Cheers Alan
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> *From:* T Novak via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org
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> *Sent:* Thursday, November 19, 2015 3:11 PM
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> Alan,
> Hawkes certainly knows how to design cool.  From underwater fighter jets
> to this underwater race car.  I noticed that there is no photo showing
> ingress/egress on the surface.  Personal submarines, in my humble opinion,
> really should have sufficient freeboard (often a conning tower) to allow
> the pilot to operate the vessel solo (without a launch crew and/or crane).
> Maybe this one does, the Super Falcon does not.
> But is sure looks good enough to get the male youth off the jetski and
> into a submarine.  I know, jetskis are a whole lot cheaper than this boat.
> Tim
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> *From:* Personal_Submersibles [
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> <personal_submersibles-bounces at psubs.org>] *On Behalf Of *Alan James via
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> *Sent:* November-17-15 10:12 PM
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> *Subject:* [PSUBS-MAILIST] Deep Flight Dragon
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> Here's a link to Hawke's new Deep Flight Dragon.
> Dragon - DeepFlight - Advanced Personal Submarines and Undersea Technology
> <http://www.deepflight.com/dragon/>
> 400ft depth capable with composite hull, a 40V system & brushless direct
> drive
> motors (like I'm trying to make).
> Very similar in appearance to the 2 person sub Phil is involved with.
> There is a specifications link on the page.
> Alan
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