The idea of a RO-RO aircraft is delicious.
Container pods might be worth doing for 1/300th
terrain as well, either for cover around a spaceport
or as habitation units for a young colony - drop cargo
pods, unload them and use them as housing.
Maybe even have passenger pods that conform to the standard so you can use any
freighter to move them and they can live in the pods when they arrive.
The militaries might use the pods as well - a field
hospital packed into pods and so on.
> Michael wrote:
The C-5 and AN-225 have doors at each end for exactly that reason :o)
> Container pods might be worth doing for 1/300th
Specifically why I mentioned them. I've a game which uses nestled hexegons to
allow vertical 'stacking' movement and have actually been using it as
'terrain' elevations in BattleTech at one point.
I'd also been in on a discussion in a group I belong to, (First Millennial
Foundation/Living Universe Foundation) on using 'pre-made' hexegonal
modules to build up a living area.
Given 'plug-&-play' connections for power/water etc, it would actually
make a lot of sense to use them as temporary housing. (The idea session
extended to using standard ISO shipping containers for terrestrial uses along
the same line)
> Maybe even have passenger pods that conform to the
Wouldn't be 'good' from a comfort sense such as a high-price
'cruise-ship'
type operation, but it would probably make sense in an 'airline' style
'mega-passenger-mover' type operation.
You could even 'extend' the idea to have tugs standing by to route passenger
pods between ships for 'faster' travel times:o)
> The militaries might use the pods as well - a field
Easily. We already have that in that we have full-up MASH units packaged
as
standard containers. They load them on a train/plane/ship and offload
them onto a truck. Drop it at the site and unfold the sides and ends and set
it up.
Beef up the structure and add 'landing' engines and you could drop them as
light hard-points for taking and holding a landing zone.
Randy