Still playing with the numbers ... Say I have a 20,000-ton aircraft with a 1,800,000-cf body and two 100,000-cf wings. If I made no math errors, the Expansion 2 rules give a stall speed of about 380 mph.
If it has eight 1.5-GW ducted fans, just two of them should be enough to sustain flight between a minimum of stall speed and a maximum of 600 mph. Full thrust is only required for flight below the stall speed. That has two effects -- it would be possible to power the six lift fans with batteries, and use fusion power only for the two vectored lift/thrust fans. And flight operations may get easier without turbulence from the six lift fans. Just how crazy are flight operations at 400 mph? OTOH, the spare 9 GW could power a really big particle beam or laser. Regards, Onno _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
