I'm not sure you guys understand, I want to glide and land this huge spacecraft at high speed, on a large runway... :thumbup:
I'm not expecting this to be able to land unpowered at heathrow or even KSC, but if you wanted to do that your hover engines will help you out and its important that it can do that too. You can decide for yourself whether a full glide landing is something that should only be an emergency measure or not and fly accordingly. Hopefully this pleases everyone. if not...:lol:
This may also lead to the creation of a very large runway and facilities for you to land on, unless others become available in the meantime. because as i've mentioned before "Heavy metal" as a project is about more than this spaceplane and obiter currently really doesn't have the infrastructure for this type of craft. I hope that it will provide a new fun experience in orbiter.
Anyway, here i've partly painted over an interior rendering to get some ideas for textures. on the model itself i've added doorways and bulkheads to seal off sections, there would probably be rows of seating in this area as in a very wide airliner. the running lights on the red strip indicate the 'down' direction and act as emergency lighting. it changes colour around doorways and should probably have different colours depending on which side of the ship you're on. This could be a very confusing ship to navigate around in an emergency... I should probably look at sea ships and see if there's anything useful there.