New U/W photo's of Seawolf

[bcliffe]

Folks,
I have updated my web page with new photo's.

http://www.playground.net/~bcliffe/modelSeawolf.html

Here's a quick sample.



Enjoy!

Cheers
BC

[ramius-ii]

Very Nice Ben! http://www.subcommittee.com/forum/icon_biggrin.gif

Best,

Very Nice Ben!

Best, Ed

[sam reichart]

Ben-
those are superb underwater shots.

Ben-
those are superb underwater shots. Thanks for sharing with us.
Sam

[nautilus]

Hi Ben, I have a

Hi Ben, I have a Sea Wolf myself, yours looks great,and looks like your a heck of a pilot too, care to advise how you caputred the photos? Brian

[bcliffe]

Thanks All!

> looks like your

Thanks All!

> looks like your a heck of a pilot too, care to advise how you caputred the photos

Busted. I have to admit most of the pictures were staged by using a fishing line and rocks to hold the boat down. I have played around with taking pictures of boats underway with little success. The shots were usually out of frame or to blurry. Dealing with debris in the water is more then a challenge itself let alone having a moving target.

Even with a stationary target I threw away more shots then I want to admit.

Cheers
BC



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[Scale Shipyard / WLU]

Ben]

[color=#000000]Ben]

[anonymous]

Beautiful Ben!

Are you using the

Beautiful Ben!

Are you using the bow planes primarily for depth control? The stern planes free moving on a APC? How well does it turn with that lamp shade (the pump jet shroud) on the back?

Thanks,

Steve Reichmuth

[bcliffe]

Thanks Steve,

They can turn? Just

Thanks Steve,

They can turn? Just kidding. Submerged I had her turning in about 15 feet. Surfaced is another story though, probably 25+. You need a good size body of water to drive her, and a lot of foresight as to where you want to end up.

She is definitely more challenging to drive then my Skipjack.

I am intrigued to see how Dave's Trenchant will stack up to the Seawolf with respect to turning performance. I am betting that the smaller pump jet, and smaller hull (almost 1/2 the size) will make a big difference. So why is it you US folks like to build things big, and the Brits like it nice and small?

Guess I can't complain though cause us Canadians don't build a darn thing, we lease our submarines.

As to the setup. I honestly keep changing it. So far I have tried as you documented above, as well as switching the APC to the front dive planes, and using the stern planes as a manual trim.

My end goal is to install an ADC on the front dive planes and have the APC on the stern dive planes. As I use a D&E 3.5 WTC I need to come up with something new to house the ADC so I can get it in the forward section of the hull. My plan is to create a mini WTC that will house a receiver/servo/ and ADC in the forward section.

This isn't going to happen anytime soon, so my guess is I will keep changing it around till then.

Cheers
BC



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