[gurps] [VEHICLE] of the week 763 - TL8 HeliCar

[Onno Meyer]

  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, 2009-06-08

HeliCar v1.0 (TL8)
  Copyright 2009 by Onno Meyer

  Some science fiction writers predicted ubiquitous personal helicopters 
by the late 20th century. This never happened in the real world, but the 
HeliCar can be used for games in these settings.
  The small helicopter has two seats in front and a folding bench in the 
rear. The avionics are simple, GPS, radio and transponder for navigation 
and fly-by-wire controls to help inexperienced pilots. Twin gas turbines 
allow the HeliCar to cruise 260 miles at 110 mph.
  The turbines burn 16.5 gallons of fuel per hour at routine speed. A 
tank of diesel is $48.

Subassemblies: Body +3, three retractable Wheels -1, Top-and-Tail Rotor 
  -1. 
Powertrain: 300-kW top and tail rotor drivetrain; two 150-kW standard 
  gas turbines; 2,000-kWs advanced battery.
Fuel: 40 gallons diesel (fire 7).
Occ: 1 CCS, 1 CS, 2 folding CS.   Cargo: 8 cf.

Armor      F    RL     B     T     U
Body:     2/2   2/2   2/2   2/2   2/2
Wheels:   2/2   2/2   2/2   2/2   2/2
Rotor:    3/6   3/6   3/6   3/6   3/6

Equipment:
  Body: Medium radio; transponder; global positioning system; autopilot; 
4-man environmental controls.

Statistics
Size: 30'x24'x9'   Payload: 0.6 tons   Lwt.: 1.2 tons
Volume: 153 cf     Maint.: 67 hours    Price: $87,875

HT: 12.   HPs: 131 Body, 12 each Wheel, 59 Rotor

aSpeed: 185   aAccel: 4   aDecel: 24   aMR: 6   aSR: 4
Stall Speed 0. Ceiling 1,785 yards.

Design Notes
  Body is 150 cf, fair streamlining. Wheels are 7.5 cf, retract into 
body. Rotor is 3 cf. Structure is light and standard. Armor is standard 
composite. Electronic controls. There are 14.4 cf of empty space in the 
body. Empty weight is 1,200 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: A larger variant.