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, 2014-12-01
Aerospace Trainer Mk.V v1.0 (TL12) 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 Mk.V has contragrav for lift at low speed and wings for aerobatic agility at high speed. The tandem cockpit has two seats for the trainee and the instructor. The cockpit of the streamlined Aerospace Trainer is much less comfortable than a normal grav car, but she can reach Mach 2 and turn at +12.5 G in a standard atmosphere. Subassemblies: Body +2, three Retractable Wheels -1, two High Agility Wings -1. Powertrain: Two 3,000-lb. super reactionless thrusters; two 4,000-lb. contragrav generators; 320-kW super MHD fusion reactor; 540,000-kWs rechargeable power cell. Occ: 2 CCS. Cargo: 5 cf. Armor F RL B T U All: 4/100 4/100 4/100 4/100 4/100 Equipment: Body: Two long-range gravity ripple communicators; two x20 LLTVs; 25-lightsecond FTL radar; 10-mile multiscanner; two sets of navigation instruments; two transponders; two inertial navigation systems; two global positioning systems; four C6 hardened small computers; two terminals; two neural induction fields; 2-man full life system; two G-seats; two gravity webs. External: Radiation shielding. Statistics Size: 18'x9'x6' Payload: 500 lbs. Lwt.: 2,000 lbs. Volume: 100 cf Maint.: 23 hours Price: $771,370 HT: 12. HPs: 225 Body, 18 each Wheel, 30 each Wing. gSpeed: 680 gAccel: 35 gDecel: 10 gMR: 0.5 gSR: 2 Ground Pressure High. 1/6 Off-road Speed. aSpeed: 1,540 aAccel: 60 aDecel: 50 aMR: 12.5 aSR: 5 sAccel: 3 G sMR: 3 Design Notes Body is 96 cf, with superior streamlining. Wheels are 4.8 cf, retract into Body. Wings are 2 cf each. Structure is medium, expensive. Armor is expensive composite. Sealed. Computerized controls with duplicate maneuver controls. 0.82 cf of empty space in the Body and 1.27 cf in each Wing. Empty weight is 1,500 lbs. The vehicle uses the design rules from Vehicles [second edition, third printing, July 2010 errata] and VXii (including the armor volume rule) with the text format from Vehicles Lite. Next Week: A TL13 bird. _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
