User blog comment:WolfgangBSC/Wolfgang's Random Chat Room/@comment-27797576-20141115040218/@comment-11135771-20141115052142

Okay, but now try to get the base to submerge while also keeping the turning ability and speed. My guess is that it won't work, although it would be amazing if it did.

The thing is, getting a flying ship to go fast and turn isn't that hard. It's basically just a surface ship with a floating bit on top, after all. What is hard is getting a flying ship to go fast, turn, and have a base that submerges, because what that means is essentially that you're making a submarine with a large weight on top making it extremely unbalanced (and submarines already tend to have low stability), which also goes fast (hard to do for even normal submarines).