A FF&S Zepplin

Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 11:26:29 -0400
From: Mark Urbin <murbin@mylife.viis.shr.dec.com>
Subject: A FF&S Zepplin

Ok, work, family, and actually running a non-Virus Traveller campain has cut
down on the time I wanted to spend on fixing Venice.
  So I dragged up something else to send to TTC for the next issue.  This is
a TL 5 Rigid Airship I designed a while back.  I have posted this before to
the TML.  Please give a look over before I send it in.

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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.

 Crew Quarters:
   5 small cabins for:
        Captain
        Pilot/Co-Pilot
        Navigator/Flight Engineer
        Radio Operator/Mechanic

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

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 if this is to be taken into a combat zone.

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