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Re:USS McCain collision ultimately caused by UI confusion by swixmix on Thursday November 02, 2017 @08:35PM (#15615718)
Do you have references for the Submarine story? The submarines I've seen have a rudder, stern plane, and another on the sail. With mechanical controls, I imagine it's difficult to have one person control all three of those movements. Two people controlling three movements seems right.
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Re:USS McCain collision ultimately caused by UI confusion by maxerickson on Thursday November 02, 2017 @08:50PM (#15615828)
The Albacore museum has a virtual tour, it shows 2 seats:

http://www.ussalbacore.org/html/virtual_tour.html

http://www.ussalbacore.org/img/img_virtual_tour/32-lg.jpg

But it was modified several times, so that doesn't really contradict the story.

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Re:USS McCain collision ultimately caused by UI confusion by Animats on Friday November 03, 2017 @01:18AM (#15616866)
See [1], the section on "The Pilot".

Albacore was very maneuverable, probably more so than any large sub before or since. The term "hydrobatics" was used. Probably too maneuverable for a ship of that size, since it wasn't configured for operation with everybody strapped in.

[1] http://www.ussalbacore.org/html/albacore_story.html

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Re:USS McCain collision ultimately caused by UI confusion by swixmix on Friday November 03, 2017 @11:48AM (#15620054)
It looks like steering was controlled by one person. Unfortunately it lacks further detail. I saved the link to read later. Thank you.
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