DeepFlight Super Falcon Submarine For Sale: You Can Buy Your Very Own if You Have $1.7 Million.
James Bond piloted a submarine car in The Spy Who Loved Me. How about upping Bond's version by purchasing an underwater plane? That's exactly what the DeepFlight Super Falcon is being billed as. It can "do barrel rolls with dolphins and spy-hop with whales" according to the DeepFlight website. It also costs a cool $1.7 million. That would sink most Americans' bank accounts.
Created by Hawkes Ocean Technologies, the Super Falcon is supremely cool.
"It is like an airplane with wings upside down," Graham Hawkes, founder and chief technical officer of Hawkes Ocean Technologies, told the Chronicle. "It is like flying in the air, but we are flying underwater."
Forgot James Bond; the Super Falcon can make you look like a super spy in your own right.
"It looks like a James Bond wild machine, but it is positively buoyant, so it's really safe," Karen Hawkes, Graham's wife and the vice president for marketing, told the Chronicle.
So what goodies does the Super Falcon contain? Does it come prepackaged with an underground lair? Sadly no, but it does have seating for two. After all, a super spy needs his plus one by his or her side at all times. Well, how about flying underwater? According to LiveScience, the Super Falcon "dives underwater like a whale." By lifting and dragging, the sub essentially flies.
Yet the number one consideration when making the Super Falcon was safety. It's "positively buoyant," meaning that it will always return to the surface, even when you're out of power. You can also only dive to depths of 400 feet. You won't be exploring the Mariana Trench with the Super Falcon.
The sub is also 100 percent electric. That will save you much needed money on gas --after all, it does cost a bundle. Plus, it's great for the ocean. No emissions, no problems. A low emissions signature ensures users that nothing will be electrocuted by your vehicle.
So what does this thing look like? The Super Falcon is 21 feet long and has a 9 foot wide wingspan. It's not exactly a goliath, but hauling this thing to the water must be a chore.
If you had nearly two million smackers to spare, what would you spend it on? Let us know in the comments section below.