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, 2009-06-22
HeliTruck 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 HeliTruck can be used for games in these settings. The HeliTruck can carry two crew and up to fourteen passengers or the equivalent amount of cargo, perhaps the groceries for a small town or a shift of offshore workers. The cruising range is some 300 miles at 130 mph. The turbines burn 66 gallons of fuel per hour at routine speed. A tank of diesel is $192. Subassemblies: Body +4, six retractable Wheels +0, Top-and-Tail Rotor +1. Powertrain: 1,200-kW top and tail rotor drivetrain; two 600-kW standard gas turbines; 25,000-kWs advanced battery. Fuel: 160 gallons diesel (fire 7). Occ: 2 NCS, 14 folding CS. Cargo: 32 cf. Armor F RL B T U Body: 3/6 3/6 3/6 3/6 3/6 Wheels: 3/6 3/6 3/6 3/6 3/6 Rotor: 3/12 3/12 3/12 3/12 3/12 Equipment: Body: Long-range radio; flight data recorder; navigation instruments; transponder; global positioning system; autopilot; 16-man environmental controls. Statistics Size: 48'x40'x10' Payload: 2.4 tons Lwt.: 4.8 tons Volume: 612 cf Maint.: 39 hours Price: $269,475 HT: 12. HPs: 375 Body, 15 each Wheel, 180 Rotor aSpeed: 215 aAccel: 4 aDecel: 18 aMR: 4.5 aSR: 4 Stall Speed 0. Ceiling 1,785 yards. Design Notes Body is 600 cf, with fair streamlining. Wheels are 30 cf, retract into body. Rotor is 12 cf, folding. Structure is light and standard. Armor is standard composite. Electronic controls with duplicate maneuver controls. There are 39.1 cf of empty space in the body. Empty weight is 4,800 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 TL11 space marine carrier. _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
