Silver Star is a luxurious executive airship (airyacht) built by M.Corp. It is a rigid body airship propelled by three radial engines in aerodynamic nacelles, each driving a pusher propeller. It is 90m long, including a spike on its nose.
Design:
M.Corp Silver Star is an airship of unusual function. It is slightly heavier than air, using its engines and airfoil-like engine struts to gain a little bit of lift necessary for flight. That allows the airship to stay on the ground without mooring cables, allowing operations without large ground crew.
The airship uses ballast for trim, shifting water between its two ballast tanks. It also uses aerodynamic control surfaces for more precise steering. It features fixed landing gear under the gondola, with a wheel in the dorsal fin to prevent damage on takeoffs and landings. It is unable to taxi.
Interior of the airship consists of the conventional gondol with command post, with stairs leading into the saloon. Saloon is furnished with leather sofas, and is glazed on both sides, allowing for an unobstructed view for the passengers. From the saloon, doors lead to two bedrooms towards the front, and towards the bathrooms and kitchen in the rear. The maintenance corridor spanning full length of the aircraft is accessible through the kitchen ceiling.
Instructions:
- Trim - ballast;
- Pitch, Roll - steering;
- LangingGear - landing lights.
Notes:
- Shift through cameras to view interior;
- I'm aware that this wouldn't fly in real life due to weight of the decorations;
- Only saloon interior is made. The rest would be there on the real airship.
- Big thanks to Authros for sofas. I have made my own, but they had a texture glitch, so Authros made me these.
Enjoy.
Specifications
General Characteristics
- Created On Windows
- Wingspan 73.2ft (22.3m)
- Length 294.0ft (89.6m)
- Height 47.7ft (14.5m)
- Empty Weight N/A
- Loaded Weight 847lbs (384kg)
Performance
- Power/Weight Ratio 15.903
- Horse Power/Weight Ratio 8.845
- Wing Loading 0.8lbs/ft2 (3.8kg/m2)
- Wing Area 1,081.8ft2 (100.5m2)
- Drag Points 130966
Parts
- Number of Parts 821
- Control Surfaces 0
- Performance Cost 2,558
Oh ok thanks
@ManuelPeres the envelope is paneled, with holes where the windows are. You can see from inside a block, and can't see into it from the outside, so putting cameras inside the large block that makes all of the windows allows you to have "glass".
How did you make the windows see through
@PhantomBladeCorp lol, some big fancy airship. Americans have put a Goodyear airship to a machine gun test once, putting thousands of bullets through it, and it kept floating. One needle wouldn't do any noticeable damage.
Who would win? Some big fancy airship or a needle?
Can you make one. I like airships. I mostly use them as targets @EternalDarkness
@horatio no, there isn't. It's not really fun to fly, being slow and unmaneuverable like an airship. Mobile version would lack interior from which to look out, killing all the fun.
Is there a mobile version
@Aeroman77 thanks.
Yeah, it does actually fly pretty well and shoots crazy fast missiles, but this is much more elegant...
@ChiChiWerx that is unlikely. Joke posts are more popular than builds like this. And it's a nice donut.
Perhaps this will overtake that donut...
@RailfanEthan no. Bulletproof glass. Sorry.
Sweet beans, can I throw someone out the window like in Indiana Jones?
Ps, empty the septic tanks after every flight
@EternalDarkness just use hydrogen for gas, and water and septic tanks for ballast!
@EternalDarkness yeah. Its possible, just not the most practical
@AeroEngineering and partially realistic. There would still have to be condensation systems to add water to compensate for the fuel spent, ballast would have to be trimmed for any payload or change in distribution of pailod, and pumps that would push water from one tank to another would be heavy, and thus a bad idea for an airship.
Shifting water for trim is an interesting concept, especially for an airship
@KerlonceauxIndustries thanks. Can't wait to see it.
@BurkeEnterprise @Davisplanez thanks.
@BaconEggs @WahrscheinlichIch I have changed the name of the build months ago to Silver Star, but forgot to edit that in description. It's been sitting in my saves for months.
Very noice, just mind, that you called it Silver Star in the title but White Star in the decription ;)
Wow! It's out now! Great job!
Incredible!