Aircraft
An Aircraft is a kind of flying vehicle or technological device, intended to convey sophonts from one location to another.
- It conveys its passengers and cargo through the medium of a planetary atmosphere.
- It is a type of vehicle and Aerospace Vessel.
Description (Specifications)[edit]
No information yet available.
Type of Aircraft by Propulsion[edit]
The category of Aircraft includes:-
While Gravcraft are technically Aircraft they are categorised separately. Rockets are covered under Spaceplanes
Image Repository[edit]
No information yet available.
Examples of Aircraft[edit]
30 Aircraft items[edit]
| Item | Type | Mode | TL | Mass | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CAR Flight pack | Personal Vehicle | Flight (Helicopter) | 6 | 37kg | Cr6,200 |
| Deathsled class Ground Effect Vehicle | Armored Fighting Vehicle | Flight (ACV/GEV) | 12 | 1.33 dton | Cr632,012.59 |
| Enlightened Supersonic Interceptor | Air Superiority Craft | Flight (Jet Aircraft) | 7 | 20 tons | Cr4,499,888.9 |
| Fringian Autogyro | Personal Vehicle | Flight (Helicopter) | 6 | 0.5 Tons | Cr45,000 |
| Fringian Basic Propeller Aircraft | Passenger Vehicle | Flight (Propeller Aircraft) | 5 | 3.5 Tons | Cr87,000 |
| Fringian Executive Helicopter | Passenger Vehicle | Flight (Helicopter) | 7 | 6.8 Tons | Cr2,416,000 |
| Fringian Executive Jet | Passenger Vehicle | Flight (Jet Aircraft) | 5 | 10.9 Tons | Cr9,200,000 |
| Fringian Large Helicopter | Passenger Vehicle | Flight (Helicopter) | 11 | 25.3 Tons | Cr785,000 |
| Fringian Large Propeller Aircraft | Passenger Vehicle | Flight (Propeller Aircraft) | 5 | 46.6 Tons | Cr1,385,000 |
| Fringian Light Helicopter | Passenger Vehicle | Flight (Helicopter) | 11 | 7.1 Tons | Cr335,000 |
| Hanglider | Personal Vehicle | Flight (Glider) | 4 | 30kg | Cr565 |
| Helipack | Personal Vehicle | Flight (Helicopter) | 9 | 25 kg | Cr2500 |
| Indeera class Armored Personnel Carrier | Armored Personnel Carrier | Flight (Hovercraft) | 8 | 3.0 dton | Cr497,127.87 |
| M5 class Parathan Light Helicopter | Reconnaissance Vehicle | Flight (Helicopter) | 9 | TBD dton | TBD |
| M6 class Parathan Medium Helicopter | Utility Vehicle | Flight (Helicopter) | 9 | TBD dton | TBD |
| Microweight Glider | Personal Vehicle | Flight (Glider) | 12 | 22kg | Cr500 |
| Ohtar Mk 632 ACV/GEV | Light Tank | Flight (ACV/GEV) | 8 | 2.5 dton | 211,221.52 |
| Personal Flyer - helicopter | Personal Vehicle | Flight (Helicopter) | 8 | 158 liter | 33,872 |
| Personal Flyer - turbine | Personal Vehicle | Flight (Jet Aircraft - VTOL) | 8 | 285kg | Cr53,176 |
| Quanah class Bomber | Ground Attack Craft | Flight (Jet Aircraft) | 6 | 20 dTons | 1,385,641.3 |
| Quanah class Fighter | Air Superiority Craft | Flight (Jet Aircraft- STOL) | 6 | 10 tons | 724,321.37 |
| Radson class Fighter-Bomber | Ground Attack Craft | Flight (Jet Aircraft) | 6 | 25 | Cr. 3,972,454.9 |
| Sand Stalker Mk 322 class ACV/GEV | Light Tank | Flight (ACV/GEV) | 8 | 2.5 dton | 270,066.37 |
| Single Seat Fighter | |||||
| Skyvan | Cargo Vehicle | Flight (Ion Thruster) | 7 | 2 dTons | 5,000 |
| Transport/Bomber | |||||
| Type 52 class ACV SPM | Artillery Vehicle | Flight (ACV) | 11 | 2 dton | 841,306.49 |
| Urida class Medium Helicopter | Passenger Vehicle | Flight (Helicopter) | 6 | 220m3 | Cr. 685,710.97 |
| Val Marin class Supersonic VTOL | Passenger Vehicle | Flight (Jet Aircraft) | 10 | 20 tons | Cr8,551,796.6 |
| War Master class Bomber |
Basic Principles of Atmospheric Flight[edit]
No information yet available.
Flight vs. Spaceflight vs. Starflight[edit]
No information yet available.
Speed Regimes-Envelopes[edit]
- Subsonic
- Transonic
- Supersonic
- Hypersonic
- High-hypersonic
- NAFAL
- FTL
History & Background (Dossier)[edit]
Flightless sophont species need technology to achieve flight. Whether it's creature or animal husbandry to domesticate flying riding beasts or to invent propulsive devices that allow flight through flying vehicles. With few exceptions, to reach the stars, a sophont must master the power of flight.
Some sophont societies are able to achieve simple flight within the TL:1-3 tech epoch, typically using floaters, balloons, or dirigibles, often unpowered. As the first practical internal combustion engines are mastered within the TL:4-6 tech epoch, the majority of sopohnt societies are able to achieve powered flight and some even achieve spaceflight. The array of technologies within the TL:7-9 tech epoch, typically allow the sound barrier to be broken and many civilizations can achieve hypersonic speeds. By the TL:10-12 tech epoch, interstellar spaceflight becomes cheap, affordable, and everyday in application, with FTL jump engines creating true interstellar communities.
Expected Technological Progression of Aircraft-Spacecraft-Starcraft Development[edit]
Expected Technological Progression of Vehicles:
See Transportation Technologies of Charted Space
See also[edit]
Vehicles[edit]
- Vehicle
- Primitive Craft - Craft of all types TL–1 to TL–3 powered by Wind or Animal power
- Aerospace Vessel
- Watercraft
- Land Vehicle
- Exotic Craft
- Multi-Environment Vehicle
- Vehicle Usage
- Vehicle Roles
- Personal Vehicle
- Consumer Vehicle
- Ground Car
- Air/Raft (Passenger, Small)
- G-Carrier (Small)
- Mass Transit Vehicle
- Rail Vehicle (Passenger)
- Bus
- G-Carrier
- Industrial Vehicle
- Commercial Vehicle
- Combat Vehicle
- Combat Support Vehicle
- Security Vehicle
Related:
The line between Spaceplane and Spaceship is blurred.If the design is described as a Vehicle then its a Spaceplane;
if it is described as a Ship its a Spaceship.
References & Contributors (Sources)[edit]
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