This is a weekly posting with GURPS vehicles (and the like) to the GURPSnet mailing list. I grant the permission for all non-commercial redistribution of my work, but I would like to know if you put it on a website or the like. The files at omeyer.gmxhome.de are down until I fix the automatic PDF generation, which should be one of these days - see sourceforge.net/projects/gurpsml Onno Meyer, 2013-08-05
General Desert Products S-23 Sandspeeder v1.0 (GURPS Traveller TL9) Copyright 2013 by Onno Meyer The Sandspeeder was designed as a simpler alternative to a contragrav air/raft. It has stubby wings with an enhanced ground effect for flight over sand, dry lakebeds, or water. The Sandspeeder carries four humans or an equivalent cargo, with a cruise speed of 100 mph and a top speed of 220 mph. The turbofans burn 10 gallons of jet fuel per hour at normal speed or 40 gallons on afterburner. A full load of fuel is $90. Subassemblies: Body +2, two Skids -1, two Flarecraft Wings +0. Powertrain: Two 500-lb. afterburning super turbofans; 6,000-kWs advanced battery. Fuel: 30 gallons jet fuel (fire on 11). Occ: 1 XRCS, 1 XRS, 2 folding XCS. Cargo: 0.25 cf. Armor F RL B T U All: 3/6 3/6 3/6 3/6 3/6 Equipment: Body: Two medium-range radios; navigation instruments; transponder; two global positioning systems; four crashwebs. Statistics Size: 8'x10'x4' Payload: 1,000 lbs. Lwt.: 2,000 lbs. Volume: 100 cf Maint.: 76 hours Price: $69,619 HT: 12. HPs: 94 Body, 6 each Skid, 27 each Wing gSpeed: 120 gAccel: 15 gDecel: 5 gMR: 0.5 gSR: 3 Ground Pressure Low. 1/3 Off-Road Speed. aSpeed: 220 aAccel: 17 aDecel: 28 aMR: 7 aSR: 3 Stall Speed 40 mph. Design Notes Body is 80 cf. Skids are 4 cf. Flarecraft Wings are 8 cf each. Structure is light, standard. Armor is standard metal. 12.1813 cf of empty space in the Body and 6.105 cf in each Wing. Empty weight is 1,000 lbs. The vehicle uses the design rules from Vehicles [second edition, third printing, July 2010 errata], VXii and VXii (including the armor volume rule) with the text format from Vehicles Lite. The Traveller rules affect the background and design choices, but not the technology of this vehicle. Next Week: A desert ATV. _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
