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Sunday, November 12th 2017, 11:59am

Civil airliners

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Sunday, November 12th 2017, 12:02pm

Type: Ripon C-2
Classification: feederliner
Length: 13.8 m (45 ft 3 in)
Wingspan: 17.64 m (57 ft 9 in)
Height: 3.5 m (11 ft 6in)
Empty weight: 3200 kg (7,000 lb)
Max takeoff weight: 5000 kg (11,000 lb)
Powerplant: two 235hp Roth 7 cylinder single row radials
Maximum speed: 300 km/h (186 mph)
Range: 1000 km (621 miles)
Service ceiling: 5050 m (16,750 ft)
Passengers: 6 seated two abreast
Crew: two flight crew
Cargo: baggage only
Availability: No longer in production. Few on second-hand market
Operators: several Atlantean, Colombian and Venezuelan airlines and the Chilean Air Force
Notes: developed to meet the needs of the Atlantean Air Force and local airlines, this monoplane design with its retractable undercarriage was advanced for its day.

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Sunday, November 12th 2017, 12:04pm

Type: Ripon C-3
Classification: medium-range airliner
Length: 18.28 m (60 ft)
Wingspan: 17.06 m (56 ft)
Height: 4.9 m (16 ft 10 in)
Empty weight: 5650 kg (12,455 lb)
Loaded weight: 8420 kg (18,560 lb)
Powerplant: two 710hp Roth 9 cylinder single row radials
Maximum speed: 370 km/h (230 mph)
Range: 1500 km (930 miles)
Service ceiling: 7010 m (23,000 ft)
Passengers: 12 seated two abreast with facilities including a toilet and galley
Crew: two flight crew, one cabin crew
Cargo: baggage only
Operators: several Atlantean, Colombian and Venezuelan airlines
Availability: No longer in production. Few on second-hand market.
Notes: this was the first advanced medium-sized monoplane airliner with retractable undercarriage to be developed in Atlantis. Also in use with the Atlantean Air Force as a transport.



Type: Ripon-Bloch RB.220
Classification: medium-range airliner
Length: 19.25 m (63 ft 1 in)
Wingspan: 22.82 m (74 ft 10½ in)
Wing area: 75 m² (807.32 ft²)
Empty weight: 6807 kg (15,007 lb)
Max takeoff weight: 9500 kg (20,944 lb)
Powerplant: two 985hp Gnome-Rhône 14N-16/7 radials
Maximum speed: 330 km/h (205 mph)
Range: 1400 km (870 miles)
Service ceiling: 7000 m (22,950 ft)
Passengers: 16 seated three abreast with facilities including a toilet
Crew: three flight crew, one cabin crew
Cargo: baggage only
Operators: several Atlantean, Colombian and Venezuelan airlines
Availability: No longer in production. Few on second-hand market.
Notes: this is a variant of the Ripon-Bloch 220 built in France by Bloch. Production ended in 1940.

Type: Ripon-Bloch RB.161
Classification: medium-range airliner
Length: 24.59 m (80 ft 7in)
Wingspan: 29.39 m (96 ft 5in)
Height: 5.57 m (18 ft 3in)
Empty weight: 12651 kg (27891 lb)
Gross weight: 20577 kg (45320 lb)
Powerplant: four 1,200hp Ripon R-1200-018C radials
Maximum speed: 405 km/h (252 mph)
Range: 1000 km (621 miles)
Service ceiling: 7200 m (23,600 ft)
Passengers: 33 seated three abreast with facilities including toilet and galley
Crew: three flight crew and two cabin crew
Cargo: baggage only
Operators: Atlantean Airways
Availability: still in production.
Notes: this was the first four-engined monoplane airliner designed in Atlantis for use on trunk routes to southern Europe and North Africa.

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Sunday, November 12th 2017, 12:06pm

Type: Ripon-Bloch RB.970 Transatlantique
Classification: long-range airliner
Length: 28.8 m (94 ft 6 in)
Wingspan: 36.65 m (120 ft 3 in)
Height: 7.8 m (25 ft 7 in)
Wing area: 144.6 m² ( ft²)
Empty weight: 25,030 kg (55,181.7 lb)
Gross weight: 37,870 kg (83,489 lb)
Powerplant: four 2416hp Clerget 16He diesel engines
Maximum speed: 497 km/h (308 mph)
Cruising speed: 441.5 km/h (274 mph)
Range: 6000 km (3,728 miles)
Service ceiling: 7210 m (23,655 ft)
Rate of Climb: 7 m/s (23 ft/sec)
Passengers: 82 seated four abreast or 62 in sleeper berths with facilities including toilets and galley in a pressurised cabin
Crew: four flight crew, four cabin crew
Cargo: baggage
Operators: Air France, LAN Airlines (four on order in late 1941)
Availability: To enter production during early 1942.
Notes: the design was optimized to carry a minimum of eighty passengers in a pressurized cabin nonstop from Paris to Cleito, or nonstop from Cleito to New York. Ripon Bloch will also undertake manufacture of this type in Atlantis.

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Sunday, November 12th 2017, 12:07pm

Type: Ripon-Bloch RB.972 Transatlantique
Classification: very long-range airliner
Length: 30.6 m (100 ft 5 in)
Wingspan: 36.65 m (120 ft 3 in)
Height: 7.94 m (26 ft 0 in)
Wing area: 144.6 m² ( ft²)
Empty weight: 25,030 kg (55,181.7 lb)
Gross weight: 45,820 kg (101,015.8 lb)
Powerplant: four 2,416hp Clerget 16He diesel engines
Maximum speed: 545 km/h (339 mph)
Cruise speed: 493 km/h (306 mph) at 7,250m cruising altitude
Range: 7440 km (4,623 miles)
Service ceiling: 8750 m (28,707 ft)
Rate of Climb: 7.5 m/s (24.6 ft/sec)
Passengers: 82 seated four abreast or 62 sleeper berths with facilities including toilets/ washrooms and galley
Crew: four flight crew, two cabin crew
Cargo: baggage and mail
Operators: Air France (on order for delivery from 1942), Atlantean Imperial Airlines, LAN Airlines, Aeroflot
Availability: to enter production in early-1942.
Notes: the Bloch MB.972 should enter service in 1942. It is a further developed MB.970 Transatlantique with Paris-to-New York range without stops. The fuselage is lengthened, the wings are extended and there is more passenger capacity.

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Wednesday, February 14th 2018, 11:44am

Spartan Superb
Based on the Spartan Spectre/Spitefull airframe

General Type:
Airplane = 1
Airship = 2
Orbiter = 3
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Year of First Flight: 1945

Description

Conventional Aircraft
Monoplane
Conventional Fuselage

A four-engined long-range airliner with a pressurised cabin for 48 passengers.



Characteristics:

Weight (maximum) 140,000 lbs
Weight (empty) 88,975 lbs

Length 98 ft
Wingspan 129 ft
Wing Area 1,640 sq ft
Sweep 2 degrees

Engines 4
Ripon R-3000-09TS
Piston

3,250 hp
at 15,000 ft


Crew 6


Typical cost $0.935 million in 1945
Total number procured 100


Performance:

Top Speed 300 kts = 345 mph
at 20,000 ft
Mach N/A

Operational Ceiling 24,200 ft

Range 2,820 nm = 3,247 miles
with 9,620 lbs payload
11,377 lbs released at halfway point

Climb 851 fpm

Cruise 290 kts = 334 mph
at 20,000 ft

Corner Speed 285 KIAS =
358 kts at 15,000 ft
Mach N/A
Turning Rate 12.0 deg/sec
Radius 5,804 ft



Internal Data:

Intake / Fan Diameter 16.1 ft

Bypass Ratio 90.1

Engine Weight 3545 lbs
Overall Efficiency 22 percent

Structural Factor 1.00

Number of Wings 1
Number of Fuselages 1

Limiting Airspeed 475 kts
Wing Ultimate g Load 6.00 g
Wing Taper 0.2
Wing Thickness at Root 2.5 ft

Tail / Canard Factor 0.4

Number of Nacelles 4
Length 34 ft
Diameter 4.5 ft
Fullness 0.2

Fuselage Diameter 9.5 ft
Fuselage Fullness 0

Pressurized Volume 85 percent
Cargo Decks 0

Cleanness 95 percent
Unstreamlined section 10 sq ft

User equipment 10,000 l