TL5.Airship.txt

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

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.
 
                                        Mark Urbin  eclipse@world.std.com