With a cruising speed around 600mph and an equitorial circumfrence of 40,075.017 km, we are talking 41.5 hours to circumnavigate the globe.
If you assume the closest supply depot is on the other side of the planet, it will take you 2 days to get back on station. If you assume regional supply depots(such as any major USAF base), then it may take less time to travel to a base, resupply, and go back 'on station' than it would to resupply in-situ. As opposed to the USS Nimitz with a speed of 31.5 knots (58.3 km/h, 36 mph) which would take nearly a month to circumnavigate the globe(assuming no large, inconvenient land-masses in the way) Even if you are just using several small, short-range planes as ferries, circling over your suply depot ought to make it much faster... On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Thomas Thrien <[email protected]> wrote: > > Am 27.04.2013 um 10:13 schrieb Onno Meyer <[email protected]>: > > > […] The sky carrier equivalent of > > RAS would be another giant aircraft, flying alongside the carrier > > and hoisting sling loads over. That doesn't sound like a good idea > > in the air. > > Ok, once again … > > It does not sound like a good idea in real life, but would mean a lot of > fun for a movie or in a game ... > > -- > Thomas Thrien > Obermarkstraße 3 > Berghofer Mark > 44267 Dortmund > Allemagne > > Tel. +49 231 7285456 > Mobil +49 171 5289503 > > email [email protected] > > Geo 51° 28' 12" N 7° 32' 17" E > > Es heißt, der Klügere gibt nach. Doch wenn die Klügeren immer nachgeben, > dann passiert nur noch, was die Dummen wollen … > > > Of course it has a meaning when a black cat crosses your way from left to > right … > It means, that the cat, coming from your left, wants to go somewhere right > from you ... > _______________________________________________ > GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> > http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l > _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
