[gurps] [VEHICLE] of the week 705 - Medium Tilt-Jet Utility Transport

[Onno Meyer]

  This is a weekly posting with GURPS vehicles (and the like) to the 
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  Onno Meyer, 2008-04-28

Medium Tilt-Jet Utility Transport v1.0 (TL9)
  Copyright 2008 by Onno Meyer

  Some cyberpunk games proclaim that vectored thrust aircraft are more 
efficient than fixed or rotary wing aviation. That seems unlikely, but 
sometimes style goes over substance ...
  The Utility Transport is a VTOL aircraft with swiveling turbofans in 
wingtip pods. It carries a pilot, a copilot, ten passengers and half a 
ton of luggage with an operational radius of some 800 miles, depending 
on the time spent hovering for takeoff and landing - on maximum thrust,
fuel consumption skyrockets. The avionics allow night and over-water 
operations, but the Utility Transport is not ruggedized.
  The turbofans burn 80 gallons of jet fuel per hour of routine use. A 
load of fuel is $1,200.

Subassemblies: Body +4, three retractable Wheels +0, two Wings +2, two 
  Pods +1. 
Powertrain: Two 4,000-lb. vectored, afterburning, super turbofans;
  24,000-kWs advanced battery.
Fuel: 400 gallons jet fuel (fire 10).
Occ: 2 NCS, 10 NS.   Cargo: 50 cf.

Armor    F    RL     B     T     U
All:    3/8   3/8   3/8   3/8   3/8

Equipment:
  Body: Two long-range radios; medium-range laser communicator; two 5x 
LLTVs; 20-mile, multi-mode radar, no targeting; 5-mile radscanner; two 
flight recorders; two sets of navigation instruments; two transponders; 
two global positioning systems; four C3 hardened, small computers; two 
terminals; 12x6 man-hours limited life support; 12 crashwebs. External: 
Modest sound baffling.

Statistics
Size: 40'x32'x10'   Payload: 3 tons    Lwt.: 6 tons
Volume: 720 cf      Maint.: 14 hours   Price: $2,066,438

HT: 12.   HPs: 750 Body, 60 each Wheel, 225 each Wing, 60 each Pod

aSpeed: 750   aAccel: 22   aDecel: 44   aMR: 11   aSR: 5
Stall Speed 0. Ceiling 16,960 yards.

Design Notes
  Body is 600 cf, with very good streamlining. Wheels are 30 cf, retract 
into body. Wings are 48 cf each. Pods are 12 cf each. Structure is 
medium and expensive. Armor is expensive metal. Self-sealing tanks. 
Sealed structure. Computerized controls with duplicate maneuver 
controls. There are 17.23 cf of empty space in the body and 17.55 cf of 
empty space in each wing. Empty weight is 6,000 lbs.
  The vehicle uses the design rules from Vehicles [second edition, third 
printing, Dec 2004 errata], VXi and VXii (including the armor volume and 
ceiling rules) with the text format from Vehicles Lite.


Next Week: Probably a VIP variant.