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Published: 2009-02-15 08:24:59 +0000 UTC; Views: 1618; Favourites: 28; Downloads: 52
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This is the Zephyr ISLS-12 FTL capable shuttle, with a range of 8 lightyears. It can transport up to 12 passengers and 3 crew.The outboard combined cycle engines rotate to give the Zephyr VTOL capability without taxing the AG systems.
The chrome cone covers the FTL/ spacial traction drive systems.
The Zephyr is popular with business executives and others that need quick private transport.
Several were purchased by the government's Galactic Postal Service and the private enterprise Universal Parcel Service.
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It almost looks like one of the ThunderBirds. Now it just needs a supermarionette pilot.
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Yeah, it kinda does! I need to just put a big white number on it!
The inspiration were those crazy looking rocket craft found in Toho movies (like "Gorath") and in the "Ultraman" series...then mix in a little Lear Jet and BINGO!!
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I assume that it is strictly a space craft, though... it can't land, because of the ventral fin?
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It can land, the ventral fin folds to the right just prior to landing ( kinda like the old MiG-23's did) and a small wheel comes down.
On each nacelle there's a landing gear, and a nose wheel comes down, the gear pattern is much like a B-52 bomber's.
I guess I'm going to have to show one parked, there a few spaceport pics I'm working on...I'll have to shoe horn a ISLS-12 into one of those scenes background.
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Thanks, it was a quickie, but I liked the general results.
Spacecraft are so much fun to design.
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That they are, I use to have heaps of fun doing that, pity the sketchbooks have vanished over time
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