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small dropship

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Noordung:
much changed light dropship.
just added materials in blender so you could see how it suppose to look like.

replaced some pictures with better ones

cevaralien:
It could be good to put an hump over the craft where the fuel will be stored.

Noordung:
we can say its got fuel tanks in wings. yes i know also wings may be a little to small, but if we want small dropsip 2x1 rma a little realism must be put aside.

besides we can say this small dropsip is powered by small fusion reactor and propelled by some sort of electrical engine. could be MPD thrusters. so aircraft would have virtualy unlimited range. 8) year is 2084 after all.

cevaralien:
Well... i solve the problem doing "refueling" on all my bases, i jump base to base to reach all the planet. So, it could be possible to do a small dropship without reach fusion reactors. Fusion reactors can give very high amounts of energy, but transforming electricity to movement is not easy, not for aircraft, because the movement relay on air displacement. There are only two possible solutions; turboprop or electrical propellrs (limited to subsonic speed) or gas acceleration (gas turbines, for example). Another way is the ionic engines, but it could be extremely unfriendly for environment.

Noordung:
why do you think ion engines are extremly unfiednly for enviroment? you can use oxygen from air as propellant and you than only need very powerful enegy source.
"simper" way it would be nuclear pulse jet. where instead of jet fuel you use nuclear fuel. this would be very similar to alien engines as game describes them but human made. and less powerful.

anyway here are 2 more versions of small dropships.

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