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2009-05-18

Deep Flight -- High Performance Winged Submarine

Winged submarine is Ferrari of the depths

Meet the Deep Flight Super Falcon, the world’s first production “winged submersible”, pictured here diving off the British Virgin Islands in January.

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Underwater 'flying machine' launched

Unlike other submersibles, Mr Hawkes said his deep sea craft can actually "fly underwater".

"Normal submersibles have ballast systems and are nothing more than sinkers. They just treat the ocean as a vertical elevator and they typically work on the bottom on a small footprint.

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Specifications

Class: High performance Winged Submersible
Numerical Design Designation: DF 302

Dimensions:
Wings deployed: 3.0m
Wings folded: 1.4m
1.6m height, 6.7m length

Cruise Speed: 2-6 knots
Maximum Thrust: 508lbs, 231kg
Max Descent Rate: 200 ft/min
Max Ascent Rate: 400 ft/min
Operating Depth: 1,000 fsw
Crew: 2

Launch Weight: 1,818kg
Payload: 230 Kg (2 persons)

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Nano Machines and a Nano-GPS System to Combat Cancer

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Mini-”submarine” will be able to combat cancer within 3 years

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The unique invention will not carry curios scientist inside the human body, but will be made out of biological materials and will be able to deliver drugs in order to destroy cancer cells and faulty proteins.

These biological nano-machines can be targeted against a specific kind of cells, their ability to track down leukocytes in mice with ulcerative colitis already having been observed. The “submarine” will use a nano-sized carrier which works like a GPS in order to find the right cells and deliver their charge to them, leaving the healthy tissue untouched. Among the first to work by using this revolutionary idea, the new disease fighter uses a drug based on RNAi, which reprograms cells to function correctly and destroys the ones affected by cancer.

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A Nano-GPS System

"Our lab is creating biological nano-machines," says Dr. Peer. "These machines can target specific cells. In fact, we can target any protein that might be causing disease or disorder in the human body. This new invention treats the source, not the symptoms."

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Nanoparticle

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Figure 1 - Schematic representation of different mechanisms by which nanocarriers can deliver drugs to tumours.

From the following article:

Nanocarriers as an emerging platform for cancer therapy
Dan Peer, Jeffrey M. Karp, Seungpyo Hong, Omid C. Farokhzad, Rimona Margalit & Robert Langer
Nature Nanotechnology 2, 751 - 760 (2007)

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Dr. Dan Peer

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"We have tapped into the same ancient system the human body uses to protect itself from viruses," says Dr. Peer, who is also investigating a number of topical applications for his medical subs. "And the beauty of it is the basic material of our nano-carriers is natural," he says.

The Tel Aviv University team plans to launch their medical submarines, following FDA regulations, within three to five years. Their immediate focus is on blood, pancreatic, breast and brain cancers.

2008-10-17

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.

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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.

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Submersible Aircraft
Solicitation Number: DARPA-BAA-09-06
Agency: Other Defense Agencies
Office: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Location: Contracts Management Office

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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.

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Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Flying Sub for FS 2004Pt II

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Underwater Video RC Submarine - Flying Submarine

2008-07-27

The Hyper-Sub -- A Submarine and Surface Cruising Powerboat.

About the Hyper-Sub, the world's first autonomous, small submarine capable of high speed surface travel over long distances.

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Marion Hyper-Sub is a submersible powerboat, an innovation new vessel with flexible design. This powerboat has the ability to run in the surface at impressive speeds. The Hyper-Sub is the first small craft built with the horsepower, sea-keeping, and range to allow operation on the high seas, which also functions as a self-charging, autonomous, one-atmosphere submarine. The patented design, which was 31 years in the making, will forever alter the mini-sub industry. The world�s first true general-purpose submarine.

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Hyper sub hysteria

It's a boat! It's a submarine! It's on public display this weekend

Reynolds Marion's hyper sub invention, the boat that also is a submarine, will be on public display on Saturday in Lake Butler. JASON MATTHEW WALKER/Lake City Reporter

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