Hi y'all. Welcome back to school (for those in that position).
I have two questions for you all and one vehicle for any Heinlein fans.
First, is there an Errata sheet for COACC?
Second, are there any MT gamers at UCSD?
Third, I now present my version of Gay Deceiver (From Robert Heinlein's
The Number of the Beast, as well as later books)
Gay Deceiver
Craft ID: 4 passenger Duo spaceplane, TL 12 (no Anti-Grav available)
59.8Mcr
Hull: 40/100 Disp = 21, Weight loaded = 10 tons, Airframe = Subsonic
through Hypersonic (STOL on Subsonic only)
Power: Storage batteries = 60 Mw-h, Endurance = 120 hours
From Engines = 39 Mw, Endurance = 120 hours
Loco: 4/10 Fusion Rockets x 1/2, Thrust = 50 tons
Agility = 6, Speed see below
Commo: Radio continental x 1
Sensors: V.Dist All Weather Radar x 1, Laser Sensor x 1, Dist LADAR x 1,
Headlights x 9, Dist Active Audio x 1 (loudspeakers), V.Dist
Magnetic Sensor x 1, Inertial Tracker x 1, Chaff discharger x 1,
Radar Direction Finder x 1
Off: 5MW Beam Laser (Pen 28/3, Dam 10, V.Dist)
Control: Boosted/Computer Enhanced Fly-by-Wire (1/6 Maneuver Points)
Computer Model 2 bis, Comp-linked Cp x 2, HUD x 1
Accom: Crew = 2 (Pilot, Observer), Passenger = 2, Cockpit Armor
Basic Env (sealed), Complex Cockpit, Crew Station
Other: Feul .12l, Cargo 300kg
Table 1: Air Speed
Airframe Cruise Maximun Minimum
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Subsonic 600 800 80
Transonic 825 1100 88
Supersonic 2100 2800 140
Hypersonic 2813 3750 175
The Airframe can be modified in flight (variable sweep wings) from STOL
subsonic through normal Trans and Supersonic to Hypersonic. Also, It can
be flown in a boosted mode or Fly-by-Wire depending on the speed and pilot's
desires. I'm not positive that I have the minimum speed for the subsonic STOL
airframe correct. I will check and let you know if it is (unless someone else
beats me to it).
The very high price is due almost completely to the storage batteries
(which seem overpriced to me). They cost 51Mcr out of the total of 59.8.
One thing I left out that should be in there is a wheel based suspension
transmission. If I had tried to add them using the MT starship desing rules
the weight would have been HUGE. I am kind of assuming that a suspension
would be included for the landing gear and am ignoring the transmission, for
now.
Any Questions, Comments, Critical Complaints (aside from the fact that I
seriously bent a few rules)?
Later
Andrew
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