Posted by David Richards on
URL: https://www.shado-forum.com/Interceptors-tp1500519p1500579.html

Flaming exhausts are primitive technology - the Interceptors must use a form
of ion drive - charged particles that provide the thrust - hence no visible
exhaust - just dust getting blown around.

As for the pilots and the chutes they slide down - as was pointed out the
gravity is one sixth that of earth so a slide would be very slow - unless it
was like those pneumatic message tubes we used to use in the department
stores to send messages from department to department - with compressed air
pushing the pilots down the chute, with some form of airlocking in the
interceptor storage bays to reduce air loss. Alternatively, if the parking
bays were pressurised up to the time the pilots entered the interceptors and
the cockpits closed - the air could be pumped out prior to launch and stored
for reuse - perhaps in the air recycling facility (hydroponic gardens would
conveniently convert the CO2 to Oxygen and can be augmented by more
technical filtering and chemical processing to provide all the oxygen
required for Moonbase to operate). Grey water would similarly need to be
recycled as would black water.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Marc Martin" <[hidden email]>
To: <[hidden email]>
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2003 10:39 AM
Subject: [SHADO] Re: Interceptors


> >By the way, that reminds me... clearly, the interceptors take off
> >semi-vertically, but now that I think about it, I don't remember
> >seeing a nozzle somewhere on the "belly" of the interceptors
> >(required for a vertical take off). Am I correct?
>
> There *is* something that looks like an exhaust port on the bottom
> of the Interceptors: