[Spaceships] Winged Spaceships

scc · 04-12-2014, 06:36 PM

Ok, the reason I asked this question is that I'm working on creating stats for something like the Dassault Aerospace Transporter. For those of you who don't know what that is (Likely most of you) that was something a bit like the Concorde but with both jet and rocket engine, the jet engines would have accelerated it to Mach 2 before the rocket engines took over accelerating it to Mach 4. At that point a separate orbiter, a bit like the Space Shuttle, would separate from it a la the Short-Mayo Composite which then ascends to orbit.

Problems with this is that the booster stage needs to be separately streamlined, and the need for both jet and rocket engines, both of these cut into the fuel percentage, I'm only getting 10 fuel tanks for a measly 2.1 mps out of the tanks using standard values. And it really should have streamlining on the airframe level from Interstellar Wars (Which would help, a single jet engine and fuel tank would provide a staggering 1.32 mps)

04-12-2014, 06:36 PM	#17
scc Join Date: Mar 2013	Re: [Spaceships] Winged Spaceships Ok, the reason I asked this question is that I'm working on creating stats for something like the Dassault Aerospace Transporter. For those of you who don't know what that is (Likely most of you) that was something a bit like the Concorde but with both jet and rocket engine, the jet engines would have accelerated it to Mach 2 before the rocket engines took over accelerating it to Mach 4. At that point a separate orbiter, a bit like the Space Shuttle, would separate from it a la the Short-Mayo Composite which then ascends to orbit. Problems with this is that the booster stage needs to be separately streamlined, and the need for both jet and rocket engines, both of these cut into the fuel percentage, I'm only getting 10 fuel tanks for a measly 2.1 mps out of the tanks using standard values. And it really should have streamlining on the airframe level from Interstellar Wars (Which would help, a single jet engine and fuel tank would provide a staggering 1.32 mps)