"Real Life" SkyDiver - Cormorant - now with nifty video

The proposal for the "Cormorant", a sub-launched and recovered jet, has been
floating around for a while (pardon the pun), but now there's some whizzy
computer animation to show how it's supposed to work:

http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/07/how_the_cormorant_submarinetoair_plane_works-2.html


Launch Stations!


JasonH


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Maybe it also has high pressure gas cylinders to force a bubble in front
of it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercavitation

Gotta go, there's a knock on the door at 3AM...

Paul


Jason Hellwege wrote:
> The proposal for the "Cormorant", a sub-launched and recovered jet, has been
> floating around for a while (pardon the pun), but now there's some whizzy
> computer animation to show how it's supposed to work:
>
> http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/07/how_the_cormorant_submarinetoair_plane_works-2.html