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Uncle Servo

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Re: In pursuit of a light freighter

I agree -- keep the wings. Without them it starts looking a little too Falcon-ish. Plus when you put thrusters in the wingtips you increase maneuvering ability. Plus they just look too darn cool not to keep. emoticon

I really like the idea of the wings folding rather than swinging. It brings to mind the Lamda shuttle when it takes off and lands.
7/20/2006, 6:56 am  
 
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I also agree with kepping the wings, and I really like the idea of folding wings.

And on top of all that I hope the tubes on teh side are teh same size as the Falcon's cuase I love the idea of a freighter with that much forward visablity.
7/20/2006, 8:39 am  
 
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A swing wing would look cool if the wings swung back like a bird diving at prey.

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7/20/2006, 9:07 am  
 
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Re: In pursuit of a light freighter

Lucas P: 160 feet, as noted way, way back on page one, post one. The forward window is at such an accute angle it needs to be long in order to give enought vertical field-of-view.

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I can cut the wings to make them swingable, but in my swing test I performed months ago, it wouldn't be able to swing far enough aft to give an advantage.
7/20/2006, 11:36 am  
 
Lucas P
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WOW, I didn't realize you were building a spaceport!

About the forward viewport.

I seem to recall reading an article several years ago about the Ferrari Modulo concept car which was developed in the early 70's (the car was also featured in the movie 'Black Moon Rising' with Tommy Lee Jones). If I recall correctly, they indicated that the sweep of the forward windshield was 14 degrees which they had determined to be the shallowest angle that a windshield can be swept without distortion.

I am just wondering, this looks like a much shallower than that....

perhaps making the ****pit section raised like a blister or something...

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7/20/2006, 1:28 pm  
 
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You could also bury the windscreen in a depression and therefore reduce the angle.
7/20/2006, 1:33 pm  
 
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that's a good suggestion too. emoticon

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7/20/2006, 1:34 pm  
 
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Re: In pursuit of a light freighter

Hey -- there's no blue-striped handicapped parking space at that spaceport! emoticon

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I can cut the wings to make them swingable, but in my swing test I performed months ago, it wouldn't be able to swing far enough aft to give an advantage.


I'm still in favor of the folding wings. emoticon



One thing though... should we move this to the Originals WIP forum? I for one would love to see this ship carried through and deckplanned. I'd even be willing to do it myself once a final 3-d form got ironed out enough to produce some rough orthos templates!
7/23/2006, 12:20 pm  
 
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Let's move it once we get to the drafting phase and we have a name and maybe stats and stuff.
7/23/2006, 3:51 pm  
 
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This project on hold. Requires complete redo due to surface geometry problem incurred altering docking ports.
Should be able to get it down to my target size.
8/2/2006, 11:41 pm  
 


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