Air performance - Page 3

pgb · 03-11-2021, 04:47 PM

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Originally Posted by ericthered

Last year I did an in-depth "down shifting" of the stats for aircraft using spaceships on my blog, trying to get stats that more closely match TL8 reality.

Fantastic, thanks. I'll have a proper look at those, and related Spaceships items on your blog.

the-red-scare · 03-12-2021, 02:25 PM

For what it’s worth, if you convert the VE2 jet engines with the optional fuel realism rules, this is what you get:

TL6 turbojet: 0.15G, 10 minutes per tank
TL7 turbojet: 0.3G, 10 minutes per tank
TL7 turbofan: 0.25G, 20 minutes per tank
TL8 turbofan: 0.5G, 20 minutes per tank

Afterburners (TL7+) multiply thrust by 1.5 and duration by 0.3 for turbojets, and thrust by 1.65 and duration by 0.25 for turbofans.

These are 3e TLs, but pretty much all production jet development occurred during 4e TL7. So you might call the turbojets TL7 and TL8, and the turbofans TL7 and TL9 with a 0.3-0.4G TL8 intermediate version.

03-12-2021, 02:25 PM	#2
the-red-scare Join Date: Sep 2014	Re: Air performance For what it’s worth, if you convert the VE2 jet engines with the optional fuel realism rules, this is what you get: TL6 turbojet: 0.15G, 10 minutes per tank TL7 turbojet: 0.3G, 10 minutes per tank TL7 turbofan: 0.25G, 20 minutes per tank TL8 turbofan: 0.5G, 20 minutes per tank Afterburners (TL7+) multiply thrust by 1.5 and duration by 0.3 for turbojets, and thrust by 1.65 and duration by 0.25 for turbofans. These are 3e TLs, but pretty much all production jet development occurred during 4e TL7. So you might call the turbojets TL7 and TL8, and the turbofans TL7 and TL9 with a 0.3-0.4G TL8 intermediate version.