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...Submerged, their unstreamlined shape produces high drag, and their feeble, short-lived storage batteries push them along at a sedate, one-horse-shay speed. Even nuclear subs, whose main engines need no air and can operate at full power underwater, are timid compromises with tradition so far. The first Nautilus has a vestigial bow and deck, is not as round as she should be for real underwater speed...
...Skipjack is the result. After tests in a wind tunnel much like those for an airplane, the Navy settled on a length of 252 ft.-almost 70 ft. shorter than the Nautilus-a 31-ft. beam, and a blunt nose that makes her look more like a blimp than a ship. A tall, thin conning tower, which the crew calls a "sail," rises out of her rounded, whalelike back to give roll-stability and carry the forward control planes...
...Nautilus 90 North, Anderson and Blair...
...Nautilus 90 North, Anderson and Blair...
...Only in America, Golden ( 1 ) 2. 'Twixt Twelve and Twenty, Boone (2) 3. Mine Enemy Grows Older, King (3) 4. Aku-Aku, Heyerdahl (9) 5. Wedemeyer Reports! (6) 6. What We Must Know About Communism, Harry and Bonaro Overstreet 7. Nautilus 90 North, Anderson and Blair (4) 8. The Coming of the New Deal, Schlesinger (5) 9. The Proud Possessors, Saarinen 10.The Affluent Society, Galbraith...