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With the aid of Don Showalter's CGI mesh models I have found this:-
Sky 1 at the right size to fit a human-sized pilot the way Don
arranged its cockpit, is 25 feet wingspan, 13.25 feet tall including
the tail fin, 32.5 feet long; its fuselage is 7.5 feet wide at
maximum.
Skydiver scaled to fit it (ignoring its periscope and Sky 1) is 28
feet wide, 19.5 feet high, 55 feet long; 11.36 feet high from deck to
keel at maximum. If the bottom of its side tanks is taken as its
internal floor level, that gives interior width about 9 feet and
interior headroom about 7 feet or a bit more, allowing for thickness
of walls. Weight 151.25 tons at neutral bouyancy in sea water
including all enclosed water spaces.
Sky 1 at neutral buoyancy in sea water (as it would have to be, else
it would make Skydiver unbalanced) would weigh 69.5 tons including
all enclosed water spaces.
When Skydiver launches Sky 1, there is absolute zero takeoff run
distance for Sky 1 to get up speed for the aerodynamics of its wings
to start to work. Therefore Skydiver would have to point its bow
straight up and let Sky 1 take off vertically like a Polaris missile.
Note the very unaerodynamic shape of Sky 1's big flat rear end.
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