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Subject: Re: [SHADO] moonbase layout & interceptor bays
> Please share the autocad plans or sketches with the group.
>
How? I don't think they allow attatchments here do they? Otherwise I
guess I could include VGA digital photographs of screenshots.
> I always believed that the Interceptor pilots used the slide into flight
seats just below the surface of moonbase. The chairs would then follow a
rail system out to the launch pad and insert the pilots into the craft. The
chairs would lock into the cockpit for launch. The ride out to the
interceptor must be like a quick roller coaster ride to cover the distance
for a scamble launch. The Interceptor launch pads had to be located far
enough away from moonbase so that if there was a launch accident, the
explosion would not engulf moonbase C&C as well. Gordon.
>
My take is that, the pilots lounge around the Interceptor's Ready Room
(that "lounge" we see frequently in the show) until a launch alert. They
slide down the tubes, and those helmets they put on are merely for not
knocking their heads on the way down. They come out of the tubes in a room
next to the interceptor silos. This room is pressurized.
This is where the fanatical canonists will have a fit-....
In this room they don their full pressure suits, then all three of them
at once cram into a small volume airlock. The airlock is part of a twin
duplicated airlock system consisting of the small express airlock, and a
larger volume "capacitor" airlock, side by side. The larger airlock is
always kept in a decompressed state. The first airlock is explosivly
decompressed into the larger one next door, thus immediatly reducing the
pressure to only a fraction of the base normal pressure and drastically
reducing the time to outer door openning. The remaining air in the first
lock is then pumped across to the second with a high volume pump. Thus very
little of the base's precious air is lost....with the primary fill of the
express lock being recovered in the larger lock next door.
The express lock door is openned, and the three pilots then bound across
the lift plattens to climb into their respective ships, much like regular
fighter pilots do on the strip.
There is no other practical way that I can think of to do this, given
what the producers have given us to work with....
As for maintenance spaces for the interceptors, moonmobiles and missile
carriers, they are also covered in the drawings, as well as bomb storage,
and offloading from the LM and transport to the underground bay.
OK, slam me.....
Dave H.
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