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Message no. 1
From: virtualshaman@*********.com (Don Wilson)
Subject: Drone Chassis question
Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 21:19:40 -0400
I've been lurking on this list for a while now, and find some of the
discussions to be........ interesting.

Anyhow, a friend and i are attempting to hash out a new drone, and
unfortunately, the sticking point we have right now is which chassis to use.
He wishes to have a basically spheroid drone.

Which would you guys use: 1) vectored thrust or 2) hover (skimmer) for
this?

TIA
Message no. 2
From: tjlanza@************.com (Timothy J. Lanza)
Subject: Drone Chassis question
Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 21:29:36 -0400
At 09:19 PM 5/17/2005, Don Wilson wrote:
>I've been lurking on this list for a while now, and find some of the
>discussions to be........ interesting.
>
>Anyhow, a friend and i are attempting to hash out a new drone, and
>unfortunately, the sticking point we have right now is which chassis to use.
>He wishes to have a basically spheroid drone.
>
>Which would you guys use: 1) vectored thrust or 2) hover (skimmer) for
>this?

There is really no argument.

If it is fully flight-capable, it is vectored thrust.

If it is ground-effect and limited to traversing horizontal or nearly
horizontal surfaces, it is a skimmer.

--
Timothy J. Lanza
"When we can't dream any longer, we die." - Emma Goldman
Message no. 3
From: maxnoel_fr@*****.fr (Max Noel)
Subject: Drone Chassis question
Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 02:35:11 +0100
On May 18, 2005, at 02:29, Timothy J. Lanza wrote:

> If it is ground-effect and limited to traversing horizontal or
> nearly horizontal surfaces, it is a skimmer.

Actually, if you want it to be ground-bound, you can go the low-
tech route and make it a crawler inside a sphere, with tweaked
acceleration/direction controls. Basically, the wheels touch the
inside of the sphere (instead of the ground) and make it turn, which
in turn makes the drone move.
Now the usefulness of such a design remains to be established,
but it can be done quite easily. :D

-- Wild_Cat
maxnoel_fr at yahoo dot fr -- ICQ #85274019
"Look at you hacker... A pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting
and sweating as you run through my corridors... How can you challenge
a perfect, immortal machine?"
Message no. 4
From: virtualshaman@*********.com (Don Wilson)
Subject: Drone Chassis question
Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 21:39:13 -0400
would be full flight, but also, wishes full hover capability.

-----Original Message-----
From: shadowrn-bounces@*****.dumpshock.com
[mailto:shadowrn-bounces@*****.dumpshock.com]On Behalf Of Timothy J.
Lanza
Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 21:30
To: Shadowrun Discussion
Subject: Re: Drone Chassis question


At 09:19 PM 5/17/2005, Don Wilson wrote:
>I've been lurking on this list for a while now, and find some of the
>discussions to be........ interesting.
>
>Anyhow, a friend and i are attempting to hash out a new drone, and
>unfortunately, the sticking point we have right now is which chassis to
use.
>He wishes to have a basically spheroid drone.
>
>Which would you guys use: 1) vectored thrust or 2) hover (skimmer) for
>this?

There is really no argument.

If it is fully flight-capable, it is vectored thrust.

If it is ground-effect and limited to traversing horizontal or nearly
horizontal surfaces, it is a skimmer.

--
Timothy J. Lanza
"When we can't dream any longer, we die." - Emma Goldman
Message no. 5
From: tjlanza@************.com (Timothy J. Lanza)
Subject: Drone Chassis question
Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 21:44:52 -0400
At 09:39 PM 5/17/2005, Don Wilson wrote:
>would be full flight, but also, wishes full hover capability.

LAVs can hover and VTOL, they just consume large quantities of fuel while
doing it.

--
Timothy J. Lanza
"When we can't dream any longer, we die." - Emma Goldman
Message no. 6
From: virtualshaman@*********.com (Don Wilson)
Subject: Drone Chassis question
Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 09:40:52 -0400
looking at the chassis table in rigger 3 and reading the desc's in the
vehicle design section, these do not match in regards to a small vectored
thrust uav. the desciptions say that it is comprable in size to the small
fixe wing uav, but the chassis chart does not include the vt uav small. nor
can i find this on the srrpg.com site in the errata.

would anyone have this line for the drone chassis chart?

thanks

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