[PSUBS-MAILIST] Deep Flight Dragon

[T Novak via Personal_Submersibles]

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

 

From: Personal_Submersibles [mailto:personal_submersibles-bounces at psubs.org] On Behalf Of Alan James via Personal_Submersibles
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/> http://www.deepflight.com/category/news/

Cheers Alan

 

 

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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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Sent: November-17-15 10:12 PM
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Subject: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Deep Flight Dragon

 

Here's a link to Hawke's new Deep Flight Dragon.

 <http://www.deepflight.com/dragon/> Dragon - DeepFlight - Advanced Personal Submarines and Undersea Technology

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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