"HarryKrause" wrote in

Honolulu — The wreckage of a large Second World War-era Japanese
submarine has been found by researchers in waters off Hawaii.

.....etc, etc., etc.......

Sub-plot summary, "Black Wind" by Clive Cussler, published 2004.

Here is a link with a picture of a similar sub and notes about it.

http://tinyurl.com/3u38r

If that link doesn't work...papa gona buy you a....oh, wait

It that link doesn't work, just use Goolge Image Search for "Toku submarine"

On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 06:50:44 -0500, "Gary"
wrote:


Here is a link with a picture of a similar sub and notes about it.

http://tinyurl.com/3u38r

If that link doesn't work...papa gona buy you a....oh, wait

It that link doesn't work, just use Goolge Image Search for "Toku submarine"

I don't mean this to sound like it is going to sound, but it somehow
it figures that the Japanese could figure out a way to fit four
airplanes into a small confined space folded up like origami.

If you look at the stern of that sub it looks a lot like the Typhoon
class Soviet subs.

What a piece of machinery though. To bad they couldn't have kept them
for historical purposes.

Later,

Tom

"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message

I don't mean this to sound like it is going to sound, but it somehow
it figures that the Japanese could figure out a way to fit four
airplanes into a small confined space folded up like origami.


What's wrong with that? Seems to me you are calling the
Japanese smart & creative. Origami is cool.

If you look at the stern of that sub it looks a lot like the Typhoon
class Soviet subs.


From the article, "The huge double hull was formed of parallel cylindrical
hulls so that it had a peculiar lazy-eight cross section, and may have
inspired the Soviet Typhoon-class built some 40 years later. "

On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 07:17:55 -0500, "Gary"
wrote:



"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message

I don't mean this to sound like it is going to sound, but it somehow
it figures that the Japanese could figure out a way to fit four
airplanes into a small confined space folded up like origami.

What's wrong with that? Seems to me you are calling the
Japanese smart & creative. Origami is cool.

Hey you never know around this NG. :)

I have a child (now grown up, but I still think of them as children)
who is really into origami - started in the 5th grade and kept it up
all through high school and well past college into med school and
still does it as a hobby.

She's really good at it. Amazes me how a plain simple piece of paper
can be folded, twisted and formed into a piece of art.

Once did a 6 foot high origami sculpture from large pieces of
construction paper.

Quite kewl.

If you look at the stern of that sub it looks a lot like the Typhoon
class Soviet subs.

From the article, "The huge double hull was formed of parallel cylindrical
hulls so that it had a peculiar lazy-eight cross section, and may have
inspired the Soviet Typhoon-class built some 40 years later. "

Yeah I know - that's what made me look closely at it.

Later,

Tom

The later German U-boats (XXXIV?) had the same 8 crosssection. Top half was
normal
submarine, bottom half was all batteries. I suspect that's what influenced
the Typhoons.

There's another I-400 class sub on the bottom off the east coast,
Chesepeake, I think.

The National Air and Space Museum has one of the Serin (sp?) bombers that
the
I-400s carried, and has just finished restoring it. It was featured in
their Air & Space
mag a few months back.

"Gary" wrote in message
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"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message

I don't mean this to sound like it is going to sound, but it somehow
it figures that the Japanese could figure out a way to fit four
airplanes into a small confined space folded up like origami.


What's wrong with that? Seems to me you are calling the
Japanese smart & creative. Origami is cool.

If you look at the stern of that sub it looks a lot like the Typhoon
class Soviet subs.


From the article, "The huge double hull was formed of parallel cylindrical
hulls so that it had a peculiar lazy-eight cross section, and may have
inspired the Soviet Typhoon-class built some 40 years later. "