From:	"Jeremy \"Bolthy\" Zimmerman" <jeremy@***********.COM>
Subject:	Re: Vehicle Economy (was RE: What is a CF?)
Date:	Wed, 6 May 1998 08:23:52 -0700

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> From: Geoff Skellams <geoff.skellams@*********.COM.AU>
> To: SHADOWRN@********.ITRIBE.NET
> Subject: Vehicle Economy (was RE: What is a CF?)
> Date: Tuesday, May 05, 1998 5:03 PM
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> I have run into this problem as well. I have a thing for
> vehicles with ultra-long ranges (mainly because I keep thinking about
> running them unsupported in the Australian outback). For ground vehicles
> it's not too difficult to make a vehicle which has a long range. But it
> is really hard to make a drone with that sort of range, especially if
> you want to put in a military sensor pack.
> My current pet project is thinking about high-speed, long range
> strategic recon drones (sort of an unmanned SR-71). When I started
> playing around with the design rules the other day, you can get a large
> UAV with a top of the line military sensor pack to only go at most a
> couple of hundred k's.

That's nothing... I wanted a tiny little rotor drone for really simple
snooping about. Those suckers can only go about 50 meters on electric
power.

I'm still trying to figure out where a man-sized or smaller rotor drone
fits 120 liters of fuel.