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Sholagar-22
« on: 04 January 2024, 22:10:54 »
Has anyone ever seen the "new wing" these are reported to have?

… And do we know it alleviated the Bad AtmosphericAtmospheric Flight Instability quirk? :smilie_character_fishing:
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Re: Sholagar-22
« Reply #1 on: 04 January 2024, 23:04:46 »
Where's it say "new wing"? The -22 is from a record sheet product, and the -27X in XTRO:Corps mentions nothing about that, and recycles the original art.
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Re: Sholagar-22
« Reply #2 on: 05 January 2024, 14:55:52 »
pp.198 of TRO:'39 says "a more stable wing configuration." As often as it's sited, it's named as a problem. :undecided:
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Re: Sholagar-22
« Reply #3 on: 15 March 2024, 22:48:51 »
Probably means micro vanes like those needed to make the F-117 stay in the air.
There isn't necessary a lot to see after the disc wing is fixed from before.

Ironically wind tests in the 70's hypothesised that discs were superior to regular wings at hypervelocity speeds.  If anything I would be concerned flying a Sholagar or Thrush at low altitude, not interface.
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Re: Sholagar-22
« Reply #4 on: 16 March 2024, 02:35:43 »
A few minutes mucking around ...
* No, FASA wasn't big on errata - ColBosch
* The Housebook series is from the 80's and is the foundation of Btech, the 80's heart wrapped in heavy metal that beats to this day - Sigma
* To sum it up: FASAnomics: By Cthulhu, for Cthulhu - Moonsword
* Because Battletech is a conspiracy by Habsburg & Bourbon pretenders - MadCapellan
* The Hellbringer is cool, either way. It's not cool because it's bad, it's cool because it's bad with balls - Nightsky
* It was a glorious time for people who felt that we didn't have enough Marauder variants - HABeas2, re "Empires Aflame"

 

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