May 18 2009Not A Plane: Winged Submarine Is Confused
The Super Falcon isn't a bird at all. OR IS IT?!? No, it's not. It's a submarine with wings. The brainchild of British inventor Graham Hawkes, the sub is capable of diving to depths of 1,500 feet, achieving breakneck speeds of up to six knots (~7MPH or some really kinky bondage), and traveling approximately 25 nautical miles on a battery charge.
Mr Hawkes said: 'After twenty years of prototyping, Super Falcon is our most advanced and elegant submersible yet, encompassing all the innovations we made in introducing underwater flight from the surface to the bottom of the ocean.'
'It is advanced enough to go barrel-rolling with dolphins, spy-hopping with whales or searching for sunken galleons,' Mr Hawkes added.
Oh hell yes -- I want to go barrel rolling with dolphins and have sex with the Loch Ness Monster! Nessie -- NESSIE! She's a relative of the dinosaurs you know. RAWR! Or should I say WUWW!? That's RAWR underwater.
Hit the jump for several more shots of all the fun to be had.
Water way to travel! Super winged submersible that 'flies' through the ocean unveiled [dailymail]
Thanks to Spikey DaPikey, Maldrien and SA, who all want to have relations with dolphins because they're sickos.
Reader Comments
1. Timbo - May 18, 2009 12:43 PM
Awesome! Ill make me one
2. MacMaster - May 18, 2009 12:49 PM
Underwater flight? I didn't know that was a proper term. I thought it was called swimming.
Alright, I'm off to the pool for some underwater flying.
3. 24-bit whore - May 18, 2009 12:49 PM
I am confused
4. 24-bit whore - May 18, 2009 12:51 PM
or diving. I bet it'd go faster without those wings.
5. Subway - May 18, 2009 12:53 PM
His last name is Hawkes and he named the thing Super Falcon?
Hawkes' Hawk would have been much cooler.
6. 1st, 2nd, 3rd Police - May 18, 2009 1:01 PM
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7. STOMPY - May 18, 2009 1:07 PM
Falco PUNCH!!!
8. Batman - May 18, 2009 1:09 PM
Actually the idea of the wings, is to go with sharks, dolphins anything that moves throught the water fast has flippers which those are. Also it helps so you can just drop on in too one of the family shots and no one will know.
9. jack - May 18, 2009 1:10 PM
I would ride that
Packaging fail, Chinese ppl over did it.
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10. Ollie Williams - May 18, 2009 1:18 PM
@7
Damn, beat me to it.
11. crackerLeroy - May 18, 2009 1:24 PM
best air/sea craft piloted by a giant head ever!
12. Pew³ - May 18, 2009 1:28 PM
Nothing like the feeling of being trapped underwater while travelling at the breakneck speeds of a whopping 7mph.
No thanks.
13. gizmoduck - May 18, 2009 1:32 PM
can you eat a burrito in there?
14. Clamdigger - May 18, 2009 2:08 PM
This would be better than holding my girlfriends head under the covers, after I fart.
15. Quik - May 18, 2009 2:09 PM
Thruster?
If you start running out of oxygen can you eject the guy in the back seat?
16. Quik - May 18, 2009 2:10 PM
It really shouldn't go faster than 7mph because then everyone'd be running them into reefs and drowning.
17. gladiator - May 18, 2009 2:22 PM
Doesn't seem that maneuverable. And the construction looks a little unsafe
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18. CGP - May 18, 2009 2:37 PM
Erm... Lead Belfast?
Shouldn't that be Lead Ballast?
19. Happyman - May 18, 2009 3:38 PM
after 20 years of prototyping we just made a missle
20. Daisy - May 18, 2009 3:53 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never Back Down where Max was flying witht he dolphins, but since he could only go 7 mph he couldn't keep up with them.
21. Watch-303 - May 18, 2009 4:28 PM
this is so cool!. you can use it to sink rich peoples yachts!
22. Kimbo - May 18, 2009 5:26 PM
Well it would be cool IF: It could go faster than a frikkin big wheel, could fly and had lots of guns
23. Aids - May 18, 2009 5:52 PM
Lame...
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24. Mesarim - May 19, 2009 4:24 AM
hmmm, I think that if they brought a compressed gas and released it through a mesh infront of the nose of that sub, they could make it go faster. A sharper nose would be better as well. of course there would be a problem with visibility, but that could be sorted with a camera that is before the bubbles. hmmm... and instead of batteries, they could use fuel cells like in the space program. the possibilities are endless!
25. eat bean - May 19, 2009 6:23 AM
F-Zero = super falcon..... I think
26. Jaded Icon - May 19, 2009 6:46 AM
I love it. I'll take two please. (The other one I'll use only for the weekends)
27. Captain - May 19, 2009 11:09 AM
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28. Rhialto - May 19, 2009 1:09 PM
Maybe it's coincidence but it has pretty much a resemblance with a V1 rocket.It's a bit late but I knew those bombings were good for something at last.
29. Galtacticus - May 19, 2009 1:14 PM
This reminds me on a Tintin comic scene.Very look-a-like submarine.
30. SEF - May 19, 2009 1:24 PM
Yeah, real advanced... up until a jet ski takes out your bubblehead.
31. Jacques Lacan - May 19, 2009 2:43 PM
Looks like some thing André Franquin could have created:
http://comicwiki.dk/images/Zormobilen.jpg
http://www.dupuis.com/Couvertures/G/9782800100111-G.JPG
32. Heiki - May 20, 2009 7:19 AM
Wings because it doesn't have any ballasts meaning if it stops it goes up to the surface. It's called dynamic diving and works like a plane flies....only the other way around since it dives.