The DARPA Submersible Aircraft

The DARPA Submersible Aircraft research project is focused on making a a vehicle that can fly in the air and dive straight into the water, becoming a submarine.

clipped from www.networkworld.com Researchers want a submersible airplane This sounds like something straight out of a James Bond movie but no, it's real and it's your government: Those way out engineers at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) want to build an aircraft that's as capable of zipping through the sky as it is underwater. clipped from www.fbo.gov Submersible Aircraft Solicitation Number: DARPA-BAA-09-06 Agency: Other Defense Agencies Office: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Location: Contracts Management Office clipped from www.networkworld.com Interestingly there was a patent issued in 2007 to Gennady Ploshkin, for a disc-shaped aircraft that could take off like a helicopter and submerge like a sub. There have been other sub-plane designs as well. Probably the most famous flying sub was in the TV show Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. clipped from www.vttbots.com clipped from www.vttbots.com clipped from uk.youtube.com Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Flying Sub for FS 2004Pt II clipped from uk.youtube.com Underwater Video RC Submarine - Flying Submarine

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