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Deep Flight Super Falcon
High performance "Winged Submersible" (Patent # 7,131,389)
Last month the California Academy of Sciences and Hawkes Ocean Technologies unveiled the Deep Flight Super Falcon submersible. Deep Flight Super Falcon is touted as the newest and most advanced winged submersible designed and built by renowned Graham Hawkes. With its ability for underwater flight, enabling an impressive range, speed and maneuverability, Super Falcon is designed to offer exotic new capabilities to explore underwater. Deep Flight Super Falcon is the culmination of four generations of experimental prototype winged submersibles that have been created to prove the concept of underwater flight, and introduce the next generation of ultra-lightweight manned vehicles that can access the oceans at all depths. The Super Falcon is reportedly the first production-model winged submersible and was originally commissioned by venture capitalist Tom Perkins for his yacht S/Y Maltese Falcon. "After twenty years of prototyping, Super Falcon is our most advanced and elegant submersible yet, encompassing all the innovations we made in introducing underwater flight from the surface to the bottom of the ocean," said Hawkes. The carbon fiber pressure hull encompasses two cockpits with dual flight controls and
24 MTR
June 2009
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