Flying Sub

[USSMissouri]

Interesting and cool model.

[Viator]

Originally Posted by Isaac

purely academic question since it is neither.

It falls in the Science Fiction department.


Isaac

Anyway, the question is a good one.
Few decades ago eng. Reid built a flying boat which can be converted into the submarine after some simple handling. Was it a submarine or still a plane? (Not mentioned that a vehicle called "a flying boat" should be put into one box with other boats, not aeroplanes).
And a decade or so ago in one of central Europe countries was built a car which can be converted quickly into an aeroplane. A "civilian wheels" or "a plane"?
The same for a truck or tank, exactly standard one, but equipped with an extra wheel sets to allow it travelling like a train on the rails (see the actually active armoured trains thread). Is it a civilian wheels / armoury or a railway related theme...?
The boundary of an "architecture" and a "diorama" is not to be determined precisely too. The fresh minimodel of a Peter and Paul Basilic covers the whole part of the Vatican City with all the surrounding buildings - is it still a model of an architectural object or a diorama?
I never can be sure.