Posted by screwedmorethenonce on
URL: https://www.shado-forum.com/Interceptors-tp1500519p1500585.html



David Richards <[hidden email]> wrote:
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.


If there are no flames, then why do es every picture I have ever seen of the Interceptors have blackened exhaust nozzles like you would see in a rocket power ship?


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 -

Interesting thoughts on the chutes, but i am not sure how you would be able to do a hot launch if you had to wait for the bay to depressurize each time. Considering the volume of the launch tubes, you are talking about a lot of air there.

Perhaps they have an airlock that they hover through, before getting to the main launch bay, so as to reduce the loss of air as much as possible.

As I noted before, there are many things that are left to our imangination as to how they actually did things on MoonBase.


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