Super Transportation

[SSgt Baloo]

ETA: 15 MAR 2012
I started a playlist >Strange Vehicles< on Youtube. If anyone finds something you think I might want to know about , either PM me a link or post it in this thread, if appropriate./ETA

Ordinarily, superheroes shouldn't have to wait for the bus or hail a cab. This thread is for links to (or pictures of) aircraft, spacefraft, or any combination of the two that superheroes might use.

XST-71V Supersonic Transport

The XST-71V supersonic transport is a development of the technology that went into the SR-71. The original purpose of this craft was to provide the US Military with a supersonic transport with VTOL capability for its Rapid-Deployment Forces. Unfortunately, the cost-benefits analysis for this VTOL-SST was completed after the first few prototypes had been assembled. The XST-71V was demilitarized and sold to Danforth Industries, which has refitted the vehicle with Electrostatic thrusters powered by a compact prototype electroplasma power generator. Performance is still classified, but top speed is estimated to be Mach 3+, and maximum altitude is more than 100,000 feet (roughly 30,000 meters). It is currently on loan to the International Defenders of Freedom.

General Products Aerospace Shuttle Mk IV
(GPA-S Mk IV)

Originally designed as a SSTO replacement for the shuttle, the GPA-S Mk IV program was cancelled. In order to recoup at least part of the expense of developing the thing in the first place, GPA has made this shuttle available to several different superteams at different times. It is currently on-loan to the Near-Space Defence Force for testing advanced propulsion systems.

Golden Age Batman's Batplane
(XP-67 Bat)

ETA: I removed the original and replaced it with this, though I've done a couple of different variations on this same airframe since.



CS-10 Chapparral

When the Brotherhood of Justice asked to purchase the burned out hulk of the XB-190 so they could restore it to flying condition for their own use, the GAO advised the Air Force to sell it for whatever they could get, after removing all classified systems. Eight months later, Professor Mind rolled out this pale gold aircraft and began submitting paperwork to have it certified as a spacecraft. The FAA and Nasa were difficult to convince that the refurbished aircraft was now space-capable, but after a quick jaunt to the moon, officials approved the design. The BoJ has used this craft to construct their own space station in geostationary orbit above the U.S., and has even aided resupply of the international space station.

Performance is unknown, but there is some speculation that the vehicle uses a faster-than-light propulsion system, at least when in space.

[fiducia]

HEROS one and all! I present to you...

The Bugatti Veyron!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugatti_Veyron

What my favorite car/Brit show had to say about it...

http://www.topgear.com/content/featu...ries/02/3.html

Deck this baby out and you can't go wrong!

[SSgt Baloo]

I found a bunch of aircraft diagrams and had to download and clean up as many as I could (Scanned images often turn out a bit wonky). Of course, I can never leave well enough alone, so here's one of my first efforts.*

Edit: JP-51 "Jetstang"

*The P-67 and XST-71V are my first efforts, though the clean-up on the "Batplane" is still incomplete.

[DusterBoy]

Ace pix, SSGT Baloo. I've always imagined a top-flight team of superheroes would have something that looked like USAF/Area 51/NASA "black project". I'd give it an electric (ie: "anti-gravity") propulsion system too.

Is this a real science? It depends on who you ask. I suspect that an orthodox scientist would say no, but Thomas Townsend Brown and Dr Paul Biefeld, neither man regarded as a crackpot, had success with electro-hydrodynamics and the "Biefeld Brown Effect" is a real phenomenon.

Of course, the controversy exists because of the crossover into UFOlogy and the banned phrase "anti-gravity".

Of course, in a superhero campaign with super-genius gadgeteers, there's every possibility that there exists a working electro-gravitic drive.

And maybe FTL as well.

Of course, reproducing the technology is the trick, isn't it?

I look forward to more of these pictures.

[Checkmate]

How about:

[SSgt Baloo]

How about:
[Image deleted in the interest of unredundancy]

Too many sharp angles and dark colors. Those are obviously the alien invaders commin' to take our wimmen!

Seriously, good work!

Another never-was from the Golden Age:

XP-59C Comet II

[SSgt Baloo]

I just love oddball aircraft!

Mig I-250


Sukhoi SU-5


Any Gerry Anderson production is also a good source.

[SSgt Baloo]

Y-35 HST & Spacecraft
Patterned after the X-24B test vehicle.

In case I haven't made it clear, you're welcome to use these vehicles in your own games, so long as you give credit if anyone asks (and which can be as vague as "This was done by some guy from the Hero System Boards").

[concord]

This is the Erne (a type of sea eagle), it is the vehicle that the Wardens use to get from Alcatraz island to the mainland and the vehicle picture that was its inspiration.



When designing/mapping a vehicle, I usually only work on half of it. Then when that half is completed I mirror it for the opposite half.

[concord]

Here is the Pegasus and Hippogriff, the Wardens' VTOL aircraft.

..........

[SSgt Baloo]

When designing/mapping a vehicle, I usually only work on half of it. Then when that half is completed I mirror it for the opposite half.

Excellent technique. I use that method also. As a consequence, most of my vehicles are an odd number of pixels wide.

Here is the Pegasus and Hippogriff, the Wardens' VTOL aircraft.

What I can see of them is pretty impressive. Can you do three-views of them (or if you can't, do you mind if I have a go at it)?

[concord]

What I can see of them is pretty impressive. Can you do three-views of them (or if you can't, do you mind if I have a go at it)?

Go ahead and have a go at it... I can see things from overhead but am not very good at extrapolating it to 3-view...

[Beast]

we have a character that can teleport the team
however the smallest hop is 1 km
and most of the team are fairly slow ground pounders

During a battle with Black Paladin our team needed to follow rapidly so everyone got into a dumpster and was carried to the next battle site

the first Dumpster of Justice came to an end 30 seconds after landing when it was used to smash Black Paladin in a move through after he had been entangled less than a second before

Mk 2(current version) has been made from an 8m long conex box fitted with enough armor to rival a battleship
also included
nanite comm system
an air lock and life support system enough to get in to space with redundancy
it can float and move very slowly on water
and lastly a gravity based teleport system that can move the dumpster 1km,10 km,100km and interface with the powers of team's #3 brick whose powers increase it's range up to 600km per hop
max capacity 9.6 tons + dumpster weight of 6.4 tons=16 tons total wt








The Dumpster of Justice

Val Char Cost Notes
6 Size 30 Length 4", Width 2", Area 8" Mass 6.4 ton KB -6
40 STR 0 HTH Damage 8d6 END [4]
0 DEX -30 OCV 0 DCV -4
16 BODY 0
24 DEF 66
0 SPD -10 Phases: (none)
Total Characteristic Cost: 43

Movement:
Swimming: 1"/2"
Teleportation: 1"/2"

Abilities & Equipment
Cost Power END
16 Mind Link , human class of minds, Specific Group of Minds, Any distance, No LOS Needed, Number of Minds (x8), Psychic Bond (45 Active Points); IAF Immobile Fragile Expendable (Easy to obtain new Focus; -1 ¾)
14 LS (Safe in High Pressure; Safe in High Radiation; Safe in Intense Cold; Safe in Intense Heat; Safe in Low Pressure/Vacuum; Self-Contained Breathing) (19 Active Points); OIF Bulky (-1)
Notes: (x2 number of items)
24 Teleportation 1", x16 Increased Mass, Usable By Other (+¼), MegaScale (1" = 100 km; +¾), Can Be Scaled Down 1" = 1km (+¼) (49 Active Points); OIF Bulky (-1)

Perks
2 Fringe Benefit: Emergency Services Vehicle

Talents
1 Eidetic Memory (5 Active Points); OIF Bulky (-1), Fuel Dependent (fuel is Very Common; must refuel Once per 6 Hours; DVD discs; -¾), Activation Roll 14- (-½)

Total Abilities & Equipment Cost: 57
Total Vehicle Cost: 100

Value Disadvantages
10 Distinctive Features: armored conex box named the dumpster of justice (Concealable; Noticed and Recognizable; Detectable By Commonly-Used Senses)
15 Physical Limitation: Steel box (Frequently, Greatly Impairing)
15 Reputation: graffiti target, 14-
20 Hunted: UNTIL 14- (As Pow, NCI, PC has a Public ID or is otherwise very easy to find, Watching)
10 Hunted: CLOWN 8- (Less Pow, PC has a Public ID or is otherwise very easy to find, Harshly Punish)
25 Hunted: Viper 8- (Mo Pow, NCI, PC has a Public ID or is otherwise very easy to find, Harshly Punish)

Total Disadvantage Points: 95
Total Cost: 5/5 = 1

[SSgt Baloo]

Go ahead and have a go at it... I can see things from overhead but am not very good at extrapolating it to 3-view...

Thanks! I'll download the top views now and see what I can come up with.

The Dumpster of Justice....

"Dumpster of Justice"?!? *Snicker!*

I'll bet everyone in your campaign is having much fun.

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Even the badguys need cool transport. This would be for a Golden-Age campaign and is based on the Weserflug P.1003/1 (link provided).

Der Schwebeflugfläche
(Or "Hoverplane" Auf English.)

[Vulcan]

Dumpster of Justice! Priceless!