Posted by anthonyappleyard <MCLSSAA2@fs2.mt.umist.ac.uk> on
URL: https://www.shado-forum.com/Skydiver-Sky-1-launch-tp1491779p1491799.html

"kevin lazenby" <[hidden email]> wrote:-
> Perhaps Sky 1 should be held in a Silo, ...
> A launch tube wouldn`t be practical for docking purposes, whereas a silo would.

On return: Sky 1 ditches somewhere near the bows of the sub. It would have to
have some sort of auxiliary motor and sea-propeller to get back inside Sky 1.
But such a thing would be deadweight in the air and would burden Sky 1 badly
as it was chasing UFO's. Perhaps the sub fires a torpedo which locks onto Sky
1 and brings it back. Once the back end of Sky 1 is back in its launch tube,
the sub could suck water out of the launch tube and suck Sky 1 the rest ofai
the way back inside. Sky 1 would have to be missile-shaped with foldable
wings. Perhaps shaped like a Cruise Missile. I can't believe in a fighter
shaped like the Sky 1 model: its big flat back end is an aerodynamic disaster.
Gerry Anderson knew little about aerodynamics, as the shapes of the
Thunderbirds show, unless he assumed that by then Man would have discovered
compact portable anti-gravity devices. In Gerry Anderson's studio, model-
making was expensive, and once the Sky 1 and Skydiver models were made, as a
midget sub, and later he decided to treat it as a full-sized sub, be would be
unwilling to throw all that work and expense away and start again, but he
would have had to use the same model and put up with the size/scale error.

"davrecon" <[hidden email]> wrote:-
> When I first saw the show as a kid,
> I got the impression that SkyDiver was a big sub; 300 ft + ...

Someone wrote once that there is a scene with men on Skydiver's outside deck,
and the scale shows that as finally imagined, Skydiver is a full-sized sub.
Just because we never see the rest of Skydiver's crew, doesn't prove that they
don't exist, given the amount of times we see inside Skydiver.