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, 2008-06-09
Heavy Tilt-Jet Utility 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 Heavy Utility Transport is a high-wing aircraft with turbofans in swiveling wing pods. The rear ramp and two smaller side doors allow the transport of bulky cargo or small vehicles. The cockpit has seats for a pilot, a copilot and a cargo master. The Heavy Transport is armored and slightly stealthy, typical of average national armies or good corporate security forces. It cannot hope to penetrate modern air defenses. The turbofans burn 240 gallons of jet fuel per hour of routine use. A load of fuel is $3,600. Subassemblies: Body +4, six retractable Wheels +0, two Wings +2, two Pods +2. Powertrain: Two 12,000-lb. vectored, afterburning, super turbofans; 20,000-kWs advanced battery. Fuel: 1,200 gallons jet fuel (fire 10). Occ: 3 RCS. Cargo: 480 cf. Armor F RL B T U Body: 4/80 4/80 4/80 4/80 4/80 Wheels: 4/80 4/80 4/80 4/80 4/80 Wings: 4/40 4/40 4/40 4/40 4/40 Pods: 4/80 4/80 4/80 4/80 4/80 Equipment: Body: Two long-range radios with scramblers; two medium-range laser communicators; two 12x LLTVs; 20-mile, multi-mode, LPI radar; 5-mile radscanner; two flight recorders; navigation instruments; two IFF; three inertial navigation systems; two military GPS; terrain-following radar; four C3 hardened, small computers; three terminals; full fire suppression system; cargo ramp; 6x8 man-hours limited life support; 3 crashwebs. Wings: 15 aircraft decoy dischargers each. External: Modest stealth; modest emission cloaking; modest sound baffling. Statistics Size: 48'x40'x12' Payload: 9 tons Lwt.: 18 tons Volume: 1,264 cf Maint.: 11 hours Price: $3,259,750 HT: 10. HPs: 900 Body, 50 each Wheel, 338 each Wing, 113 each Pod aSpeed: 740 aAccel: 22 aDecel: 22 aMR: 5.5 aSR: 6 Stall Speed 0. Ceiling 17,175 yards. Design Notes Body is 1,000 cf, with very good streamlining. Wheels are 50 cf, retract into body. Wings are 96 cf each. Pods are 36 cf each. Structure is medium and expensive. Armor is expensive composite. Self-sealing tanks. Sealed structure. Computerized controls with duplicate maneuver controls. There are 103 cf of empty space in the body. Empty weight is 18,000 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 really big shuttle. _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
