Re: FT-Fighters and launch bays

At 11:39 AM -0700 6/5/01, David Griffin wrote:
>I could be wrong, but I think the rules were changed
>to avoid the x turns of pre-engagement dancing while
>both sides gradually deployed their fighter groups.

[snip]

Our Carriers, ie the US's carriers. The carriers that the Brits use 
don't require catapults.

The fighters that the Atlantic Conveyor brought to the South Atlantic 
were launched from her deck and flown over to Hermes and Invincible. 
They were "cargo" on the way down and required prep time. Granted the 
AC wasn't a "carrier" but that didn't stop the fighters from 
launching from the cargo space.  Those aircraft were spotted exactly 
the way they are below decks on Hermes or her sisters.

What the Atlantic conveyor was missing was the support crews that 
prep the fighter, arm it, fuel it, fix it and set things up for the 
blokes that fly them off the carrier into the blackness of space.

If one were to take the cargo space/launchbay concept, add passenger 
space and mass 1 each for 4 fighters say, then you'd be getting close 
to the mass requirements for supporting those fighters. As that gives 
you mass costs for shops, armament storage, fuel/reaction mass 
bunkerage, crew space, etc.

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