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, 2014-11-22
Aerospace Trainer Mk.VIII v1.0 (TL15) 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. She has a teardrop-shaped hull with two seats for the trainee and the instructor. The small luggage compartment and the twin engines fill the rear. The Mark VIII uses a combination of contragrav, powerful sublight thrusters, and microactuators in the fuselage in place of conventional aerodynamic controls. The Trainer was designed for orbital operations only, but if necessary she is capable of short interplanetary flights. Subassemblies: Body +2. Powertrain: Two 18,000-lb. mega reactionless thrusters; two 4,000-lb. contragrav generators; two 1,000-kW total conversion reactors; 810,000-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* * Plus DR 1,000 force screen. Equipment: Body: Two long-range gravity ripple communicators; 25-lightsecond FTL radar; two 6-mile PESAs; 10-mile multiscanner; two sets of navigation instruments; two transponders; inertial navigation system; two global positioning systems; four C9 hardened small computers; two terminals; two neural induction fields; forcelock; FSR 5 force screen generator (DR 1,000); 2-man full life system; two ejection seats; two G-seats; two gravity webs. External: Radiation shielding. Statistics Size: 12'x6'x4' Payload: 500 lbs. Lwt.: 2,000 lbs. Volume: 100 cf Maint.: 28 hours Price: $495,040 HT: 15. HPs: 225 Body. aSpeed: 9,295 aAccel: 360 aDecel: 30 aMR: 7.5 aSR: 4 sAccel: 18 G sMR: 18 Design Notes Body is 100 cf, with radical streamlining and underbelly skids. Structure is medium, standard, responsive. Armor is standard metal. Sealed. Computerized controls with duplicate maneuver controls. 0.359 cf of empty space. Empty weight is 1,500 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: The last of the trainers. _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
