This is a weekly posting with GURPS vehicles (and the like) to the GURPSnet mailing list. I grant the permission for all non-commercial redistribution of my work, but I would like to know if you put it on a website or the like. My site is down for rebuilding, but sooner or later the old stuff should reappear at omeyer.gmxhome.de Onno Meyer, 2008-05-26
Medium Tilt-Jet VIP Transport v1.0 (TL9) Copyright 2008 by Onno Meyer Some cyberpunk games proclaim that vectored thrust aircraft are more efficient than fixed or rotary wing aviation. That seems unlikely, but sometimes style goes over substance ... The VIP variant of the Medium Tilt-Jet seats only five passengers and an extra flight attendant. The free volume is used for more comfortable seats, a galley, a tiny toilet and enlarged fuel tanks. The extra range can be useful, but more often the fuel is used to sustain top speed on short hops. The turbofans burn 80 gallons of jet fuel per hour of routine use. A load of fuel is $1,800. Subassemblies: Body +4, three retractable Wheels +0, two Wings +2, two Pods +1. Powertrain: Two 4,000-lb. vectored, afterburning, super turbofans; 24,000-kWs advanced battery. Fuel: 600 gallons jet fuel (fire 10). Occ: 2 NCS, 1 RCS, 5 RS. Cargo: 5 cf. Armor F RL B T U All: 3/8 3/8 3/8 3/8 3/8 Equipment: Body: Two long-range radios; long-range cellphone with scrambler; medium-range laser communicator; two 5x LLTVs; 20-mile, multi-mode radar, no targeting; 5-mile radscanner; two flight recorders; two sets of navigation instruments; two transponders; two global positioning systems; four C3 hardened, small computers; three terminals; compact fire suppression system; 6-man luxury interior; cramped toilet; small galley; 8x7.5 man-hours limited life support. External: Modest sound baffling. Statistics Size: 40'x32'x10' Payload: 2.8 tons Lwt.: 6 tons Volume: 720 cf Maint.: 14 hours Price: $2,098,388 HT: 12. HPs: 750 Body, 60 each Wheel, 225 each Wing, 60 each Pod aSpeed: 750 aAccel: 22 aDecel: 44 aMR: 11 aSR: 5 Stall Speed 0. Ceiling 16,960 yards. Design Notes Body is 600 cf, with very good streamlining. Wheels are 30 cf, retract into body. Wings are 48 cf each. Pods are 12 cf each. Structure is medium and expensive. Armor is expensive metal. Self-sealing tanks. Sealed structure. Computerized controls with duplicate maneuver controls. There are 54.03 cf of empty space in the body and 2.55 cf of empty space in each wing. Empty weight is 6,400 lbs. The vehicle uses the design rules from Vehicles [second edition, third printing, Dec 2004 errata], Vehicles Lite, VXi and VXii (including the armor volume and ceiling rules) with the text format from Vehicles Lite. Next Week: An armed tilt-jet for Matthew. _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
