Using my copy of FF&S, I came up with:
TL 5 Cigar shaped Rigid Airship (Hydrogen)
Useful Lift: 1365 Tonnes
Thrust: 100 Tonnes (TL5 Propellers)
Max Speed: 200 Kph
Cruising Speed: 150 Kph
Combat Move: 27.8
Travel Move: 600
Endurance: 120 Hours
Range: 18,000 Kilometers
Volume of Envelope: 227,576.54 Displacement Tonnes
Cost: MCr 184.60367
This Airship has 6 Gondolas. The control, cargo and four engine.
Each Gondola is a a simple airframe.
The Main Gondola consists of:
Flight Deck:
Open Crewstations for:
Pilot
Co-Pilot
Navigator
Radio Operator
Flight Engineer
TL 5 300 Km Radio (0.1 square meter antenna)
TL 5 Navigational Aids
Gyro Compass
Barmetric Altimeter
TL 4 Search Light (6 attached around the gondola)
TL 5 Improved Internal Combustion Engine; 0.25 m^3; producing 0.1 MW
Main Gondola power requirements = 0.0215 MW
3 Kiloliters of HCD fuel to power the engine for 120 hours
1.75 Tonne ships locker.
The Cargo Gondola consists of:
1400 m^3 of cargo space.
Each of the four Engine Gondolas consists of:
1 44.642856 m^3 TL 5 Improved Combustion Engine producing 35.714285 MW
TL 5 Propeller
This combination produces 25 tonnes of thrust.
The four Engine Gondolas produce a total of 100 tonnes of thrust.
The fuel for the 4 propulsion engines (1071.4285 Klt) is stored in the
Envelope (76,54 diplacement tonnes were added when figuring the weight
of the envelope)
Notes:
The 1.75 tonne ships locker is fudge space for weight. Light weapons
can be added or 3 crew bunks or more radio/sensor equipment.
The cargo Gondola is has 100 displacement tonnes of open space. 100 tonnes
of Mass were figured into the lift equations. There are several options
available besides flat cargo space.
- More engines and propellers can be be added. The ship is at the maxium
speed already, but adding more thrust will improve handling (adding
modifiers to piloting rolls).
- Cabins (and a small engine to handle the power requirements) can be
installed, turning this craft into a passenger liner.
- Bomb or missle racks can be added. I personally would suggest replacing
the hydrogen with helium of this is to be taken into a combat zone.
When I get this spreadsheeted, I will upload the 1-2-3 format file to the
main TML archives.
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