Re: FT-Fighters and launch bays

At 7:51 AM +0100 6/5/01, Bif Smith wrote:
>I was thinking of my post about deployed SMR pods, and I came up with
this
>idea for fighters. The fighter bays can be considered as the launch
bays
>(after all, a ship can launch all it`s fighters at once), we could have
the
>fighters carried as cargo in cargo bays, with the fighter bays use for
just
>[snip]
>Any comments?

I like. This makes sense too. Fighter racks like on B5 are more like 
the launch them all at once kind of fighter bays. A more traditional 
carrier would have a number of bays that can could be used for 
recovery or launch. Though I suspect the recovery evolution would be 
more protracted.

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