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Re: Air Conditioning on Type XXI's ?
Posted by:
Xray
()
Date: June 24, 2002 06:26AM
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ah, ..thanks,...you guys......zzzzz,...zzzzz,.....no, really,...zzzz,..Christopher Tarana wrote:
>
> 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
ah, ..thanks,...you guys......zzzzz,...zzzzz,.....no, really,...zzzz,..Christopher Tarana wrote:
>
> 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