Eric replied to me: > > This one is a bit smaller than the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier. It is > > marginally thinkable to move it on the ground, so I went that way. > > huge tires or huge ground pressure?
100,000 lbs. per sf. Extremely high. > you'll always want this thing moving at high speed? Yes, fast enough that there is significant aerodynamic lift and three quarters of the fans can shut down. > yes, but perhaps restrained at a few tons' capacity (for crates of > supplies, and for villains, nefarious cargo) Multirole VTOL gunship/transports. > this is part of my theme -- where will you land this? On special airports. A reinforced concrete landing pads and ramps to the oversized maintenance hangars. Other than that, the only reason to land is bulk resupply of jet fuel and ordnance, which might be on improvised forward bases. Then the fans must keep turning to take most of the weight. Regards, Onno _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
