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[crazygary]

I sincerely hope that your brothers visit is most enjoyable for you, greenman407!
Nothing like the family commitment that makes it all worthwhile! Good times to you both!!

Video on, my friend!!! I am thoroughly enjoying your runs!!

Party on, "Garth"!! ( Waynes World rocks!!!)

CG

[greenman407]

OH Dear..................well, my video guy is here for another week or so. Let me see what I can do.

[alad61]

I dont know if thats a good idea Dave, we dont want me to scare people off..........ya know

C'mon Mark you know you want to...

Besides I've been electrocuted @age 8, been hit by a car twice, walked away (kind of) from a serious car smash, climbed & fallen on cliffs, got married, got divorced, got married again, broke my back jumping from a perfectly sound aircraft not to mention occasionally incurring HWSNBN wrath and watched a sub crash dive to the muddy depths... So scare me... I dare you!!!

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

Nice try, SEAVIEW-boy. Do it!

M

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

Nice try, SEAVIEW-boy. Do it!

M

[crazygary]

I don't scare easily, greenman407!

Go for it!!

CG

[greenman407]

I dont know if thats a good idea Dave, we dont want me to scare people off..........ya know

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

Next in line of the videos. Pretty good.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDyVv...ature=youtu.be

Very nice! How about an on-the-bench video: Introduce yourself; show how the pre-missions are done; explain operation of the SD and linkages; show the at-site mission checks; back at the bench show the post-missions; and show off your shop along with current and past projects.

And, do it now!

M

[crazygary]

She's pretty nimble!!

Looks like a lot of fun to drive!!

CG

[greenman407]

Next in line of the videos. Pretty good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDyVvgs0RYA&feature=youtu.be

[greenman407]

Oh, theyve been hooked up all along, I just cant see any need, they dont do anything good. Its weird. Im thinking that the ADF fights against any affect that they might have. You can go full dive on the sail planes when they have a couple of inches of water on them and it will force it up.

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

Is that not the most fun drive you've had yet?

Are the sail planes hooked up yet?

M

[greenman407]

The second video. Going much faster now. If you look in some of the closeups as its driving by, you can clearly see the area of vacuum behind the scopes. Really cool.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zWY1...ature=youtu.be Once again I apologize for the poor Youtube quality.

[greenman407]

Here is the first video that he took of her. It was going slow and easy. The following videos will be going faster and faster.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWJAv9fJxOM

[greenman407]

On our recent trip to Clearwater, my camera man and I, spent sometime with the Scamper. Since I was trying to impress my brother(showing off) I was doing some un-suggested maneuvers. At very high speed I put her into a hard turn to starboard. I should have learned from my previous experience but she made it thru about 3/4 of the turn and went straight to the bottom. DDDOOOOOOUGH! Well, I hit the gas ballast to bring it up when I suddenly remembered....................I had already done that a number of times before and that it was quite possible that I had exhausted the gas. DDDOOOOOOOUGH!!! Sure enough , it wasnt coming up. Not to be left out I still had the SAS that I had moved to another switch. I was probably between 10 and 15 ft. of water. So, I hit the SAS pump and held it and watched...........and watched. Finally ..........................THERE IT IS!!! Slowly, not in any hurry, she was coming up! In previous posts it had been mentioned that at depth the SAS would be somewhat limited due to the pressure of the greater depths. Well, its true that it was a slow trip to the surface, perhaps 45 sec. to a minute, but up she came.
LET THAT BE A LESSON TO YOU!!!............OH........yes well, If you have a gas ballast system, it doesnt do you any good to keep operating a boat that the gas has been or almost depleted. So, back to the shore she went and out onto the stand for an inspection of the Subdriver. You see I expected that the Subdrivers rear compartment would have some water in it due to the fact of the great depth of her last mission BooBoo. NOT ONE DROP could I find. NOT ONE DROP. Elated that I didnt have to leave Clearwater without the Scamper, I put her up along with the Oscar and headed home. This was the "After Action Report".