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"The Flying Sub..!"
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Dah daah dah, dah dah dahdah dah, dah dah dum... Ring a bell? Prolly not, huh. Well, if you were a sci-fi geek kid thirty years ago like we were, you'd have recognized the opening tones from Irwin Allen's subsurface opus: Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea! Every episode was chock full of impossible technology, improbable plots and ridiculous monsters. And one of the coolest pieces of impossible technology was the 'Flying Sub', a nuclear-powered, manta-ray looking thing that could fly like a bird and swim like a fish! As geeked out kids watching Voyage, we couldn't get enough of the Flying Sub! And, as we came to find out, we're not the only ones. The FS-1 was so cool that folks out there are building working scale versions, like Dave Merriman's FS-1 (So far, submarine functionality only. Darn!). But as we found out, sci-fi is sometimes more science than fiction, because back in the 50's both the Navy and an inventor from New Jersey worked on actual vehicles combining submarines and airplanes. As you might expect, they did neither well, but talk about ambitous! But the saga isn't over yet, kids: the Navy is actually trying it again and it looks cooler than ever!
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