Flying Submarine - Flying Subs in Fiction

Flying Subs in Fiction

A flying submarine was a feature in:

• Master of the World (1904) by Jules Verne
• The Flying Submarine (1912) by Percy F. Westerman
• Tom Swift and His Diving Seacopter, the seventh book of the second series.
• Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (TV series)
• Inspector Gadget
• The Japanese Toho Studios film Atragon.
• The Mighty Jack from the Japanese Tsuburaya Productions TV series of that name.
• The 2001 Steven Spielberg film A.I. Artificial Intelligence ("Amphibicopter")
• Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
• The Incredibles
• The Three Stooges in Orbit features a vehicle made by a lone inventor which is a combination submarine, tank, helicopter and spaceship.
• The Gerry Anderson series UFO features the SkyDiver, an aircraft which was launched from a submarine.
• In the game Red Alert 3 the fictional Empire of the Rising Sun uses flying submarines (ironically, anti-aircraft capable when on water and anti-ground when airborne) as part of their army.

G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero (Hasbro, the related animated series and Marvel & Devils Due Comics) regularly featured the SHARK attack submarine, which was capable of air and submersive assaults. The range of these flight varied through the media (originally, it was stated that the shark could make only short range "leaps" and attacks, but the cartoon and comics later "forgot" this. In "G.I Joe: The Rise of Cobra" the SHARK was featured in the final battle, but the movie model varied greatly from the comics and cartoon model, and its flight mode was not established in the movie.

A wide variety of flying submersible craft can be found in the X-COM: Terror from the Deep video game.