[joedelta]

branson-goes-20000-leagues-under-the-Sea: Personal Finance News from Yahoo! Finance

[wild weasel]

no, but I could see cobra using it

[joedelta]

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Originally Posted by wild weasel

no, but I could see cobra using it

i see, charles branson=CC
his private island=cobra island

[dsrader]

^Nice

[Scoop]

I think that new vehicle is for underwater use only. I don't think that it can leave the water and fly in the air like the Sharc does.

[Ixz72]

The concept has been around for a while. Google "Deep Flight".

[Dagger]

That guy has been doing a lot of crazy stuff lately. He also has a plane that will take you to outer space and circle the globe. Hats off to him for having the $$$$$ to do it all.

[zuludelta]

Sadly, Richard Branson's newest toy doesn't fly. They call it an underwater plane because it uses "wings" to simulate negative buoyancy.

The US Department of Defense is developing a submersible aircraft though, if you believe this federal government presolicitation notice I dug up.

[lardman]

That's thing's open to the water, better to go for one of the closed versions, e.g.: Deep Flight - H.O.T. [Submersibles > Deep Flight Aviator]

"Interesting" blurb about it having the ability to go down to 37k' and being built for Steve Fossett to have a go; you'd have thought someone else would have tried it, or we would at least have heard about it if it were actually anything more than a publicity stunt....

Still, it does look cool

[green_shirt]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ixz72

The concept has been around for a while. Google "Deep Flight".

They've got something like this in every other Bond film as well as classics like Danger Diabolik. Either way I never get tired of seeing stuff like this.