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--- drawingboard:components:propulsion:propulsion [2024/06/05 19:21] – [Space Propulsion] tailkinker
+++ drawingboard:components:propulsion:propulsion [2024/06/06 01:54] (current) – [Lift Systems] tailkinker
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 First available at TR-1, this includes a variety of propellors and jet engines.  Some spacecraft engines can also be found here, as they are equally capable of propelling an aircraft.
-Some of these propulsion systems generate their own power, such as rockets or jet engines.  Others, like propellors and reactionless thrusters, will require an installed powerplant.
+Some of these propulsion systems generate their own power, such as rockets or jet engines.  Others, like propellors, will require an installed powerplant.
 ===== Faster Than Light =====
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 ===== Lift Systems =====
-Static lift can cancel out the mass of a vehicle.  However, these are really only available in two formats:  gas bags and contragravity.  Gas bags were technically obsolete before they were even invented, and contragravity is superscience.
+Static lift can cancel out the mass of a vehicle.  These range from gas bags to lift fans to wings in ground effect to super-science solutions such as contragravity or levitation.  In addition, some air motive systems, such as helicopters, tilt-rotors and ornithopters, provide some lift as well.
-Contragravity will require installed power;  gas bags do not.
 ===== Space Propulsion =====