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Now This Is Cool, #233
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Now This Is Cool, #233
12-29-2009, 05:26 PM (This post was last modified: 01-17-2018, 03:13 PM by Bob Schroeck.)
A remote-controlled USS Enterprise model -- that flies underwater.
-- Bob --------- Then the horns kicked in... ...and my shoes began to squeak. 
Hell, I've linked to this before. It's really neat. And placing the waterjet in the hangerbay hardly breaks the lines of the ship at all. (Though I
wonder if with a little work if you could place the waterjet where the ports for the impulse engines are at the trailing edge of the saucer?) Heck, it works even better if the ship in question has a jet-like rear end and was originally designed to move through the water in the first place. ^_^
Nice. The main guns are linked to the steering, it seems, but somehow it works.
I also liked the quick shot of the shuttle orbiter from underneath, sitting on the surface as the subject of that video goes by... -- Bob --------- Then the horns kicked in... ...and my shoes began to squeak. 
"The NCC-1701-A is built from a 1/350 scale off-the-shelf kit by a Japanese modeler named Starfleet Yokosuka."
Okay, I am going to go looking for this dude once I get back to Yokosuka. (^_^) 
Well, you might find him here, if you can work out were & when. The more amazing thing I've worked out, is that they are using off the shelf RC equipment, normally used to control model planes, cars, Mythbusters' experiments...and just water-proofed it to the extreme.
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