[Roanoke]

Haven't done a ship in ages....

[WeatherOp]

A very high speed, atmosphere capable Interceptor.

[aldo_14]

My first thought was 'spacetaxi'.......

[Kie99]

Doesn't look very "Freespacey" to me.

[brugger]

The engines look they'd break off the first time the pilot hit the afterburners (if they lasted that long) I like the fuselage design though  it could be a cool interceptor. the wings need to be integrated into the hull better though (imho)

@ weathop how could those wings make it atmosphere capabale?

[Flaser]

Anything is atmospheric capable as long as you push (with a rocket/engine) hard enough.

[Boomer]

Anything is atmospheric capable as long as you push (with a rocket/engine) hard enough.

My sig.  2nd quote.

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by brugger
The engines look they'd break off the first time the pilot hit the afterburners (if they lasted that long) I like the fuselage design though  it could be a cool interceptor. the wings need to be integrated into the hull better though (imho)

@ weathop how could those wings make it atmosphere capabale?

Maybe he's deriving it from the apparent intages on the engines, which look like classic turbojet ones (or whatever the correct term is for an atmospheric jet/rocket engine - scramjet?)

[Roanoke]

They're not wings btw. They're, um, round, shell guard things. Hell I dunno, but not wings.

[aldo_14]

"aerodynamic manifolds"

Howzat?

[brugger]

I know if you put a rocket on somthing it will fly, but if you want a fighter it needs to be controllable, and for that to happen it needs something that creates lift and control surfaces to alter the lift providing manueverability. Which those curved things would not do. Now, as a space fighter they could act as protective sheilding for vital subsystems (engine, weapons, etc.)

[MicroPsycho]

maybe they aren't jets/rockets but uber missile pods of d00m!

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by brugger
I know if you put a rocket on somthing it will fly, but if you want a fighter it needs to be controllable, and for that to happen it needs something that creates lift and control surfaces to alter the lift providing manueverability. Which those curved things would not do. Now, as a space fighter they could act as protective sheilding for vital subsystems (engine, weapons, etc.)

Antigrav is used for lift & maneuvering.  After all, we've seen the fat arse Satis(IIRC) flying in atmoshpere in the vprime animation.

[brugger]

Anti grav could be used but that would require massive amounts of energy. The Satis is designed as a space freighter first even if it can fly in the atmosphere. If somthing was designed to move between space and atmosphere on a regular basis it would use wings and control surfaces just to save energy. it would also be nice to have the wings in case of some sort of power loss at least you'd have chance to glide to the surface, the Satis would fall like a rock

[Bobboau]

"Anti grav could be used but that would require massive amounts of energy."
yeah, I guess your right, all the anti-grav technology I've used in my day to day life has been extreemly power hungery.

useing gravity drives you wouldn't have to worry about harm from G-forces on the pilot, and you could probly do some insainly tight turns.

[Getter Robo G]

Seriously?  My first Impresion was Hercules Meets Gunstar...

Please someone make a nice GUNSTAR!!!

Cute design though...

[brugger]

I don't claim to be an expert, but what little i've seen of current anti grav technology so far is that it requires either a very powerful electromagnet or a rotating superconductor to reduce an objects mass, either of these methods use a lot of energy, I'm sure that in 300 years they will figured out a more efficient means of anti grav but overcoming somthing as powerful as gravity can't be easy

[Fenrir]

Reducing mass? That's where fission reactions come in, not antigrav.

[brugger]

fission is splitting matter, some of the matter is turned into energy and some is turned into other forms of matter. So this could be described as reducing mass, but anit gravity (which is a misleading term becasue so far there isn't any proof that there is antigravity like there is anti matter) attempts to this point have been centered around reducing an objects mass to 0 without destroying it. So don't think of it as taking matter away, just creating a force that changes how gravity effects the object.

If someone with more knowledge on the subject of current anti grav tech can prove what i'm saying wrong please do so, everything that i'm saying comes from somthing I read several years ago (i don't even remember the study name or the journal it was in)

[WMCoolmon]

I'll go with some kind of non-military ship.

A racing vessel, or maybe a courier ship, or just a really rich person-ship.