--- On Wed, 7/20/11, Onno Meyer <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I was wondering if it is possible at 3E TL6 to come up with > a > submersible aircraft. It should be able to dive, to move at > a > few knots for a few hours, and to fly. > > I guess the main problem will be the takeoff. 3E makes it > hard > to get seaplanes and floatplanes to fly, and diving tanks > make > it even harder. > > I'm thinking of it as a neat little puzzle within the > rules, > not a call for house rules -- 3E is not evolving any more. > > Any comments?
I'm assuming you're mainly thinking of the Soviet flying sub project from WWII, a twin-engined torpedo bomber. There was also a oneman American attempt in the early 1860's which did work (in a fashion; on it's only test run, it flew a few feet above the ground and dove a few feet below the surface) G:WWII (and this might also have been from one of the two Vehicle Expansions) had a rule that a seaplane only had to reach a speed of 61 or 71% of stall to get airborne (if taking off from water), although this still required a 5-15 mph headwind in most cases. IIRC, the primary real life problem for flying subs is sealing the air-breathing engines for underwater travel, which is fairly trivial in VE2. Brandon _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
