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. The files at omeyer.gmxhome.de are down until I fix the automatic PDF generation, which should be one of these days - see sourceforge.net/projects/gurpsml Onno Meyer, 2009-06-08
HeliCar v1.0 (TL8) Copyright 2009 by Onno Meyer Some science fiction writers predicted ubiquitous personal helicopters by the late 20th century. This never happened in the real world, but the HeliCar can be used for games in these settings. The small helicopter has two seats in front and a folding bench in the rear. The avionics are simple, GPS, radio and transponder for navigation and fly-by-wire controls to help inexperienced pilots. Twin gas turbines allow the HeliCar to cruise 260 miles at 110 mph. The turbines burn 16.5 gallons of fuel per hour at routine speed. A tank of diesel is $48. Subassemblies: Body +3, three retractable Wheels -1, Top-and-Tail Rotor -1. Powertrain: 300-kW top and tail rotor drivetrain; two 150-kW standard gas turbines; 2,000-kWs advanced battery. Fuel: 40 gallons diesel (fire 7). Occ: 1 CCS, 1 CS, 2 folding CS. Cargo: 8 cf. Armor F RL B T U Body: 2/2 2/2 2/2 2/2 2/2 Wheels: 2/2 2/2 2/2 2/2 2/2 Rotor: 3/6 3/6 3/6 3/6 3/6 Equipment: Body: Medium radio; transponder; global positioning system; autopilot; 4-man environmental controls. Statistics Size: 30'x24'x9' Payload: 0.6 tons Lwt.: 1.2 tons Volume: 153 cf Maint.: 67 hours Price: $87,875 HT: 12. HPs: 131 Body, 12 each Wheel, 59 Rotor aSpeed: 185 aAccel: 4 aDecel: 24 aMR: 6 aSR: 4 Stall Speed 0. Ceiling 1,785 yards. Design Notes Body is 150 cf, fair streamlining. Wheels are 7.5 cf, retract into body. Rotor is 3 cf. Structure is light and standard. Armor is standard composite. Electronic controls. There are 14.4 cf of empty space in the body. Empty weight is 1,200 lbs. The vehicle uses the design rules from Vehicles [second edition, third printing, Dec 2004 errata], VXi and VXii (including the armor volume and ceiling rules) with the text format from Vehicles Lite. Next Week: A larger variant. _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
