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, 2014-11-17
Aerospace Trainer Mk.III v1.0 (TL10) Copyright 2014 by Onno Meyer The Aerospace Trainer is used for the initial training of shuttle and starship pilots. The small craft is capable of surface to orbit flights, orbital maneuvering, and reentry. The Mark III has two seats in a tandem cockpit. The nose contains the avionics and a small luggage compartment. The fusion ram-rocket and the reaction mass tanks are in the rear. The Trainer is not really suitable for suborbital passenger service, but it would certainly make a fast global transport for a single passenger. In vacuum, the engine uses 80 gallons of water per hour. The reaction mass lasts for 30 minutes at full thrust. Subassemblies: Body +2, three Retractable Wheels -1, two High Agility Wings -1. Powertrain: 4,000-lb. fusion ram-rocket; 360,000-kWs rechargeable power cell. Fuel: 40 gallons water. Occ: 2 CCS. Cargo: 3 cf. Armor F RL B T U Body: 4/25 4/25 4/25 4/25 4/100 Wheels: 4/25 4/25 4/25 4/25 4/25 Wings: 4/100 4/100 4/100 4/100 4/100 Equipment: Body: Two long-range radios; two x4 LLTVs; 25-mile air-search radar; two sets of navigation instruments; two transponders; inertial navigation system; two global positioning systems; four C4 hardened small computers; two terminals; two 2x12 man-hour limited life systems; two crashwebs. External: Radiation shielding. Statistics Size: 18'x9'x6' Payload: 800 lbs. Lwt.: 2,000 lbs. Volume: 100 cf Maint.: 16 hours Price: $1,643,520 HT: 12. HPs: 113 Body, 9 each Wheel, 15 each Wing. gSpeed: 555 gAccel: 30 gDecel: 10 gMR: 0.5 gSR: 2 Ground Pressure High. 1/6 Off-road Speed. aSpeed: 1,255 aAccel: 40 aDecel: 22 aMR: 5.5 aSR: 5 Stall Speed 95. sAccel: 2 G sMR: 2 Delta-V: 86,019 mph Design Notes Body is 96 cf, with superior streamlining. Wheels are 4.8 cf, retract into Body. Wings are 2 cf each. Structure is light, advanced. Armor is advanced composite. Sealed. Computerized controls with duplicate maneuver controls. 0.27 cf of empty space in the Body and 1.6 cf in each Wing. Empty weight is 1,200 lbs. The vehicle uses the design rules from Vehicles [second edition, third printing, July 2010 errata], VXi, and VXii (including the armor volume rule) with the text format from Vehicles Lite. Next Week: A reactionless trainer. _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
