WWII drop tank multihulls
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Did you know that American airmen stationed in the Pacific built drop-tank multihull racers during WWII? Well now you do. Thanks to Paul D. for the submission. Article in French.
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- 2021-05-25 05:30 | by Claudio
This brings back memories of a neighbor who got a 1960s drop tank to make a mini-sub for scuba diving. They lay in his backyard for a few years, enlivening boyhood imagination, before the project was dropped (no pun intended). Years later the neighbor did train me me to scuba dive, anyway!
2021-07-08 09:14 | by Wade Tarzia
There is at least one (IIRC more than one) in the Okinawa Oceanic
Culture museum, worth a visit if you get a chance, though one or
two of the reconstructions look a bit unlikely to my jaundiced eye.I took a lot of pictures but seem to have lost them. Heres the one on
the website, which has built up gunnels on a drop-tank lower hull.
Unclear from the picture where it gets its stability from, but IIRC
some had sponsons flush with the hullhttps://oki-park.jp/userfiles/images/inst/kaiyo/en/tankubuni.jpg
2021-11-22 02:25 | by Ed Lithgow
Loved this! Too cool.
Thanks for posting.
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