Travis replied to me: > I suspect that trying to use a jet engine would not work well due to the > lack of 'forward' speed most of the time starving it of the normal amount > of air/coolant.
And then there is the fuel use. A heli-carrier is a bit pointless if it has the same endurance as the aircraft it carries. So I thought of a reactor, but at lower tech levels fission is just too heavy. > After that, I would be concerned about the size of the blades, and the > amount of 'flat' surface on the top where heli-blades would not do as much > good(and presumably you want the flight-deck to stay clear of whirling > blades of doom, not to mention turbulence) Maybe side and front intakes, underside and rear nozzles. Nothing on top. > Speaking of turbulence, if you are lifting a carrier sized object, how much > turbulence would there be on your flight deck? A munchkin would say no rules for that. Besides, turbulence also depends on the speed, which can be relatively low. > Could you mitigate it by perhaps building some sort of wall between the > fans and the flight deck?(would this force your carrier to get bigger > because now your aircraft wings cannot stick out over the edges?) Make the deck totally enclosed, with an opening in front for takeoff and one in the rear for landing. > If you were forced to use only two rotors, are there materials in existence > that will be strong enough to make the blades? Could you reach a point > where there is reduced effectiveness because you are pulling air out of our > source area faster than it can replenish? That's why I went for ducted fans. Regards, Onno _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
