[Stoat]

Also from the UK Telegraph:

Sir Richard Branson plans 'underwater plane' - Telegraph

[Stoat]

Submariners ping request :-)

[Ronin]

Riiiiiiiiight!!!!

Someone needs to take his crack pipe away.

[denydenydeny]

“unchartered depths”? Really?

[Gideon7]

Underwater planes? Like in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow?

“Alert the amphibious squadron!”

[Molon Labbie]

I wonder if this guy realizes how cost prohibitive building a sub that can dive that deep would be....

You couldn’t possibly recoup the cost of building it with sub tourism.

[C210N]

This was prototyped in the 60's...

[PIF]

130 ft I’ll buy, 35,000 ft in his dreams. I guess the US and Russian navys are still stuck with that ancient metal tech... they are so yesterday.

I think if his composite tech actually worked, every navy in the world would be lined up for the nuclear versions and be forking over far more money then a relatively few rich tourists for such a platform.

BS

[RoadTest]

“The Virgin Atlantic boss hopes the submarine with fighter jet technology will explore unchartered depths at 35,000ft”

Uncharted

[onedoug]

Go for private enterprise. Just keep your hands out of my tax pockets.

[wxgesr]

Good way to smuggle drugs...if you can keep the USN sonars off of you.

[stylecouncilor]