Re: Air Conditioning on Type XXI's ?
Posted by:
Christopher Tarana
()
Date: June 24, 2002 12:16AM
J.T. McDaniel wrote:
>
> but someone evidently found either the original or, at least,
> an older set of plans and discovered that the screws were
> bladed, and there was no separate tank.
Wasn't the original lost when the British navy swiped it?
> keeping the same angle on both, and trying to keep dives on
> an even keel. (Which had a lot to do with tank design - the
> early ones weren't subdivided properly, and diving at an
> angle tended to shift all the water ballast forward or aft.)
> J.T. McDaniel
Somehow I can't see a Gato class or a Type VII with dive
screws! LOL!
Christopher
>
> but someone evidently found either the original or, at least,
> an older set of plans and discovered that the screws were
> bladed, and there was no separate tank.
Wasn't the original lost when the British navy swiped it?
> keeping the same angle on both, and trying to keep dives on
> an even keel. (Which had a lot to do with tank design - the
> early ones weren't subdivided properly, and diving at an
> angle tended to shift all the water ballast forward or aft.)
> J.T. McDaniel
Somehow I can't see a Gato class or a Type VII with dive
screws! LOL!
Christopher
