Tuesday, November 27, 2012

RE: Submersible - Update

I didn’t know what it was, but Johnny figured it out.  (John B.  He’s a pilot.)  It’s not a submersible.  It’s a home-built kit plane called a Dragonfly.

http://www.greatplainsas.com/dragon.html

 

 

 

Or maybe a Burt Rutan Quickie.

http://www.aviastar.org/air/usa/rutan_quickie.php

 

 

That’s funny.  When Tom said something about Burt Rutan, we thought he was joking.

 

 

From: Steve Taylor [mailto:spt@thetaylorcompany.net]
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2012 10:16 PM
To: Bill Taylor (Bill Taylor); David Taylor (David Taylor); Tom Taylor (Tom Taylor)
Subject: Submersible

 

 

This thing is stuck in the ground outside Sharkey’s.

 

From the other side it looked like a ship’s anchor or something.  I never thought much about it.  From this side though, it looks like a vehicle.  A crashed plane?

 

I don’t think so.  It looks like some sort of submersible.  A towable submarine?  Research perhaps?  It looks like it had ailerons on each of its wings so it could “fly” underwater.

 

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