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How is a Starfury launched from an OCD?

RubberEagleRubberEagle What's a rubber eagle used for, anyway?
in Babylon 5
I was wondering.. how do starfuries launch from a Omega class Destroyer...
They don't have any landing gear, as far as i know, so my guess is they are dropped into the "launching/landing tunnel" and just thrust away...

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  • Alec MAlec M Award Winning Poster
    Remember, that part of the ship doesn't have gravity. They are probably all hooked to the ceiling or something, with platforms going out so the pilots can get in. Basically the same as the B5 cobra baya, except for the rotating launchers.

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  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    Yep, pretty much like that. Hop in, release clamps, thrust.

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  • eamonmcaeamonmca Earthforce Officer
    This from B5tech.com:
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    Fighter launch system used on the Omega class Destroyer is both simple and efficient. Sometimes referred to as the Pez, the Starfuries are held side by side, within a series of offset elevators referred to as locks. When the launch order is given, the Starfury on the right is raised and fired from its launch platform, and is immediately followed by the vessel to its left and vice-versa. With sixteen locks per Destroyer, each holding two Starfuries, an Omega class vessel can launch all 36 of her fighters in less than two minutes under emergency conditions.
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  • RubberEagleRubberEagle What's a rubber eagle used for, anyway?
    Thanks [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/smile.gif[/img]

    so it's pretty much the way i thought....
    cool [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/smile.gif[/img]
  • BekennBekenn Sinclair's Duck
    Be warned that, due to the limited availability of official information, a great deal of stuff at b5tech can't be relied upon. A lot of it is just fan brainstorming about how it could work. While most of it is reasonable, it's not always reliable.

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  • whitestar90whitestar90 Elite Ranger
    But it does sound viable [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/smile.gif[/img]

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  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    In this case yes. But in many other cases it is so bad.

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  • StrikerStriker Provided with distinction
    The fighter bays used by the Whitestar-Class Destroyer are cool!

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  • RubberEagleRubberEagle What's a rubber eagle used for, anyway?
    I've made a little "study" yesterday.
    It's just a quick'n dirty animation...
    here are some pics. tell me what you think... [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/smile.gif[/img]
    [img]http://members.tripod.de/TimothyHasek/mod/ocdlaunch/ocdlaunch1.jpg[/img]
    [img]http://members.tripod.de/TimothyHasek/mod/ocdlaunch/ocdlaunch2.jpg[/img]
    [img]http://members.tripod.de/TimothyHasek/mod/ocdlaunch/ocdlaunch3.jpg[/img]
    [img]http://members.tripod.de/TimothyHasek/mod/ocdlaunch/ocdlaunch4.jpg[/img]
    [img]http://members.tripod.de/TimothyHasek/mod/ocdlaunch/ocdlaunch5.jpg[/img]
    [img]http://members.tripod.de/TimothyHasek/mod/ocdlaunch/ocdlaunch6.jpg[/img]

    (those pics are each below 10K, but if it's too much, i'll reduce them to links [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/wink.gif[/img] just tell me)
  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    I'm pretty sure they don't come out of the floor of the docking bay. There's nowhere for them to come out from below there. I'm fairly sure the fighter bays are in the long rectangular section between the front panelly bit and the rotating section. The stuff between the front panels is all tanks and sensors and stuff, nothing solid.

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  • RubberEagleRubberEagle What's a rubber eagle used for, anyway?
    hm.. you mean in the section with the escape pods?
    well, that doesn't change much, except for the distance to the exit [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/wink.gif[/img]
  • NickNick Earthforce Officer
    "How is a Starfury launched from an OCD?"

    Giant rubber bands.
  • JackNJackN <font color=#99FF99>Lightwave Alien</font>
    [quote]Originally posted by Nick:
    [b]"How is a Starfury launched from an OCD?"[/b][/quote]

    Very carefully!

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  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    It would actually change it considerably. The docking bay is (vertically) aligned with the center of that section. This would suggest to me that it opens up into a flight deck type area, where the 'furies would all be lined up along the walls already hanging, just waiting to go. Then what you would do is get everyone in their ships, seal the flightdeck entrance, and open it to space via the docking bay. The pilots then thrust out of their mounts one at a time, turning 90 degrees when they line up with the docking bay. Then just fly on out. No raising arms needed or anything.
    Besides, having to raise them all out of the floor, even all at the same time, would add far too much time to the launch sequence.

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  • RubberEagleRubberEagle What's a rubber eagle used for, anyway?
    hm... ok, so, if i understand correctly, what you suggest is, that they are hanging near the walls/in bay like openings in the walls (i think bays, like you see in "Each night i dream of home" on the Excalibur might be more safe, in case of a "landing" maneuver like the one excercised there, allthough on an Omega the space should feel more cramped, more submarine like i think) and then thrust more towards the center of the docking bay and fly out.

    btw, with my technique, it took exactly 3 seconds from opening the hatch to when the fury left the tunnel... and id have done the launching like that:
    we have rows. something like that
    1 2
    3 4
    5 6
    and the starting sequence would have looked something like that:
    hatch one opens. Fury one is raised. Hatch two opens. Fury one is rotatet. fury two is raised. Hatch 3 opens. Fury one is launched fury 2 is rotated. Fury 3 is raised. Hatch 4 opens. Platform one is lowered. Fury 2 is launced. fury 3 is rotated Fury 4 is raised. Hatch 5 opens .... I think you got the point [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/wink.gif[/img]


    the reason i'm asking all this and bothering with it is that we want to have launching sequences in the StarLancer TC, and they should be not only "exciting" but also a bit "realistic"..
  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    Yeah, that image from Crusade is pretty much what I mean, but more cramped like a sub, as you said. Far more cramped.
    While your seqeunce would work, it is unnecessarily complex for the situation, especially given the nature of the Omega's shape in that area.

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    Never eat anything bigger than your own head.
    The Balance provides. The Balance protects.

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  • TheSaintTheSaint Ranger
    Less moving parts = less chance of mechanical failures.

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  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    Exactly.

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    [b][url="http://www.minbari.co.uk/log12.2263/"]Required reading[/url][/b]
    Never eat anything bigger than your own head.
    The Balance provides. The Balance protects.

    "Nonono...Is not [i]Great[/i] Machine. Is...[i]Not[/i]-so-Great Machine. It make good snow cone though." - Zathras
  • RubberEagleRubberEagle What's a rubber eagle used for, anyway?
    yes... ok.. and then.. too much moving parts= too much to animate *hehe* (ok, I'm a lazy bastard [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/smile.gif[/img] )
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