Can the "Skydiver" Submarine SSTO actually be built?

[Vaporo]

I did try to build a [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_of_the_World_%28novel%29"]Flying Submarine[/URL], with some success. I found that the only way to keep something light enough to fly underwater was to use constant engine power. If you want to launch it from and redock to a submarine base, I'd build a regular seaplane-ssto, but with a docking port on the front. Then, after the flight when I wanted to redock, I would just point the nose straight down towards the base and fine tune the engine power until I could "hover" underwater. Once I'd stopped moving, so long as I could keep the nose straight down, I'd just use RCS to dock with my base.

So yes, I suppose that it could be done.

[Dispatcher]

Of course mention has been made of the UFO series and also flying submarines, but [I]this[/I] would be fun to see in KSP:

[video=youtube;hVtW4CP5YW8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVtW4CP5YW8[/video]

Of course that was a simulation (imagine that, kind of like KSP). Here is a poor recording in B&W (the series was in color) including Flying Sub as seen in the "Voyage ... " series:

[video=youtube;WHNNXVZ1mYg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHNNXVZ1mYg[/video]

Maybe there will be a mod for this? (Nudge nudge)

[Just Jim]

I forgot!!! I would love to see the flying sub!!!

[KerikBalm]

That hydroplane SSTO I posted earlier... its a flying sub... much better at flying than being a sub, but here it is doing the sub thing:

[img]http://i.imgur.com/sBuHYIl.png[/img]

[selfish_meme]

[quote name='Just Jim']hey now.... I wasn't trying to suggest 1999 was good...
I just wanted to show the Eagle Lander.
I think it's one of the more realistic ships of the time[/QUOTE]

[url]http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/8549-Space-1999-Eagle-**Version-1-2-16-hatch-Kerbonaut-Ready!**[/url] there is a mod not sure if it is current

[SR]

Use Tweakscale to build a large submarine, and maybe a 0.65 mere SSTO.

[Mike Mars]

I loved that show as a teenager.

I had a thing for Lt. Gay Ellis played by british actress Gabrielle Drake.  She went on to do a couple of porn films after UFO.

Loved those purple wigs and those short silver skirts.