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Re: Max dive plane setting
Posted by: joe brandt ()
Date: November 17, 2002 02:19PM

I think the max angle on the dive plane indicator is 30 degrees , up or down positions . If you had any more than that while doing a crash dive the stern would raise out of the water and hang there untill the negative weight of the boat pulled it under and wasting a lot of critical dive time . I have several pictures of this , a u-boat with it's stern and tips of the props out of the water ( props splashing water all over and not doing much else ) and machine gun and cannon splashes all around the boat from attacking aircraft . 15 to 20 degrees is a good safe range to use in most cases .

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Max dive plane setting Drebbel 11/17/2002 09:45AM
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Re: Max dive plane setting Rainer Bruns 11/17/2002 03:11PM
Re: Max dive plane setting Tony Smith 11/18/2002 02:36PM
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