OT- Here comes SkyDiver!

This is what happens when DARPA employees start watching too many old
sci-fi TV series:
http://www.darpa.mil/TTO/programs/cormorant.htm

Pat

"Pat Flannery" wrote in message
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This is what happens when DARPA employees start watching too many old
sci-fi TV series:
http://www.darpa.mil/TTO/programs/cormorant.htm

Pat

Nice to see that the Flying Sub idea is still around.
http://www.iann.net/vaults/voyage/target10.html

Of course, the Northrop B-2 is an update version of their earlier designs.

NASA CEV is really just a modern post-Apollo program design

gb

remember the pilot seats were just these kind of floppy loose jointed
things sitting in the middle of the floor with a hand controller built
in. Always wonder why they didn't have there eyeballs strapped in when
the did the water entry thing, and as I remember the "windscreens"
where angled flat at about 30 degrees or so............Doc

gb wrote:

"Pat Flannery" wrote in message
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This is what happens when DARPA employees start watching too many old
sci-fi TV series:
http://www.darpa.mil/TTO/programs/cormorant.htm

Pat



Nice to see that the Flying Sub idea is still around.
http://www.iann.net/vaults/voyage/target10.html



Here's some nice shots of the UFO Skydiver models:
http://www.cloudster.com/Sets&Vehicl...kyDiverTop.htm
Here's some more shots of the Flying Sub:
http://www.cloudster.com/Sets&Vehicl...yingSubTop.htm
And here's a purple-haired lady taking her clothes off:
http://www.framecaplib.com/ufolib/im...f/ident049.jpg
While men watch:
http://www.framecaplib.com/ufolib/im...f/ident048.jpg
Lotsa' Licentious Lunar Lust, Laddie!
Here is Barbara Eden from Voyage To The Bottom Of the Sea:
http://www.vttbots.com/Graphics/spot...en_minisub.jpg
Barbara Eden's Bottom Is Something To See:
http://www.stomptokyo.com/badmoviere...RO-voyage3.jpg
Swingin' Sultry Submarine Sex, Son! :-)

Pat

wrote:

remember the pilot seats were just these kind of floppy loose jointed
things sitting in the middle of the floor with a hand controller built
in. Always wonder why they didn't have there eyeballs strapped in when
the did the water entry thing, and as I remember the "windscreens"
where angled flat at about 30 degrees or so............Doc



I could see it flying out of the water, but as you say, that dive back
into the water looked like it would kinda' severe.
The thing also lacked any control surfaces (airelons, rudder, flaps,
elevators) which means those nuclear jet engines must have had some
pretty impressive vectoring capabilities.
Ever see the Russian EKIP Coanda effect aircraft?
http://www.100megsfree4.com/farshores/!ekip_1.jpg
And it's even yellow!
Maybe it comes out of the bottom of a Typhoon submarine...the "Sovview".
:-D

Pat