How do you get into a Mobile?

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How do you get into a Mobile?

Anthony.Appleyard
See http://www.buckrogers.demon.co.uk/temp/mobile.jpg for a picture
of a Mobile (actually a render of a translation into .OBJ + .MTL mode
of Don Showalter's Lightwave model). How did its crew get into it?
The materials list in the file included "rear doors" in the back of
the vehicle, but it does not mention front doors. The picture whows
that it is far from clear where cab doors could be. The file gave the
name "front hatch" to some areas between and below the two panes of
the windscreen; but it would be strange if the drivers had to get in
by hingeing the windscreen up and climbing in over the dashboard -
even if it is a tracked vehicle like a tank and so has no steering
wheel.
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RE: How do you get into a Mobile?

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Re: How do you get into a Mobile?

anthonyappleyard <MCLSSAA2@fs2.mt.umist.ac.uk>
--- In [hidden email], "Hemmings, R.K." <rkh@l...> wrote:
> I don't think we ever see anyone enter/exit a mobile in the series,
> so no help there. Perhaps the whole front section hinges upwards
> or forwards, like some truck cabs?

When truck / lorry cabs hinge up, it is so that mechanics and Customs
searchers can look inside everything easily, not for the driver can
get in and out.

> At least there's consistency in
> this area, as it's also tricky to see how the pilot gets into SKY1,
I read that there is a tunnel through from its back end where its
pilot gets through from the sub.

> ... the interceptors - it would take too long to treat
> the whole interceptor hanger like an airlock, and pilots don't wear
> spacesuits, so how the hell do they get in?!!

My only solution here would be to say that Interceptor pilots wear
full space-type pressure suits despite what we see on the screen. That
would be a LOT safer than an open suit with a riotsquad visor, if his
cockpit gets split open in space by enemy fire.