----------| Am 23.03.2010 18:53 schrieb Onno Meyer: |---------- > Then there is the question of sensor signature. A legged > vehicle can squat and power down even on moderately broken > ground. A flyer with underbelly skids (to save the landing > gear) needs even ground. > Why do you need any landing gear at all? Your "vehicle" is relatively small and light, and its normal flying height is around one meter - so even an emergency landing should be relatively smooth. Some stable "balloons" should be sufficient for that - and for each terrain. And when it has to go to ground from a higher altitude, it should deccelarate accordingly, otherwise any kind of landing gear would be broken anyway.
The vehicle is not even required to keep upright position when on ground; as I understood, reactionless thruster technology would even allow to re-orientate before full take-off. -- Thomas Thrien Geo 51° 28' 12" N 7° 32' 17" E _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
