Good but impossible idea??
 

what if you could model the focke that most of the IXD2 boats carried for long distance observations, to be extended by cable up into the air (like you can see the schnorkel being deployed) by ordering the watch officer to "deploy float" or something. the model would have to include a seated crew member looking out to sea like the crew on the conning tower do. here's the type of craft that my beloved robert gysae had on his boat:

http://www.uboatarchive.net/U-177Bachstelze.jpg

don't bother telling me it's not possible because i already assumed that:p with that said, if it's possible then i can see the next award winning model in the making:up:

Hmm?

Someone should start modeling a torpedo to resemble such a thing I believe, or maybe there are depth limitations for a torpedo... but with very limited handling capabilities

The stories I have read on this "Kite"...which there are other posts in here about it...think even someone had one going at one time, are that when deployed, and say an enemy plane got near the pilot would be cut loose and end up swimming. At the risk of loosing a U-boat over the Kite Id choose not to deploy it...

KD

Bloody right....never draw the short straw.

It reminds me of the CAM pilot during the Murmansk runs :o

I read in Hitler's Grey Wolves: U-Boats in the Indian Ocean there was only one instance in which the Bachstelze was used successfully to intercept & destroy a merchant.