A flying contrivance with room for three passengers, who are suspended in nappylike leather seats that strap to the waist, making it quite an inelegant way to travel. Powered by a small steam engine.
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| - A flying contrivance with room for three passengers, who are suspended in nappylike leather seats that strap to the waist, making it quite an inelegant way to travel. Powered by a small steam engine.
- Ornithopters, commonly 'thopters, are the basic means of travel on a planet. A 'thopter is any aircraft capable of sustained wing-beat flight in the manner of birds. It resembles a bird or an insect and flys by either wing-beat or by jet-propulsion. They are most often used by the wealthy of the Known Universe. However, they can be formated with lasguns and shields for use in battle.
- Ornithopters were a type of aircraft that used flapping wings to fly. On Earth, ornithopters were tested but unfeasible, while on other planets, generally with lighter gravity and thicker atmosphere, they were used. Mordred mentioned the helicopter piloted by Flight Lieutenant Lavel as being like one of the ornithopters on Arthur's World, "but with whirling blades for wings". (TV: Battlefield) The various intelligent insects of Sentarion used ornithopters. Those used by the universities had special markings to identify them. (PROSE: Shakedown)
- 'Thopters were also very versatile. While they were capable of space travel over short distances, these small vessels were mostly operated in planetary atmospheres. Their uses varied from human transport between cities and continents, to light cargo transport across long distances. 'Thopters were often used for military purposes and equipped with weaponry. Usually these weapons were lasguns, but they could also carry small missiles and repeating maula pistols. With the exception of the planet Arrakis, and for heavier cargo transportation, most ornithopters were equipped with shields.
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| - A flying contrivance with room for three passengers, who are suspended in nappylike leather seats that strap to the waist, making it quite an inelegant way to travel. Powered by a small steam engine.
- Ornithopters, commonly 'thopters, are the basic means of travel on a planet. A 'thopter is any aircraft capable of sustained wing-beat flight in the manner of birds. It resembles a bird or an insect and flys by either wing-beat or by jet-propulsion. They are most often used by the wealthy of the Known Universe. However, they can be formated with lasguns and shields for use in battle.
- 'Thopters were also very versatile. While they were capable of space travel over short distances, these small vessels were mostly operated in planetary atmospheres. Their uses varied from human transport between cities and continents, to light cargo transport across long distances. 'Thopters were often used for military purposes and equipped with weaponry. Usually these weapons were lasguns, but they could also carry small missiles and repeating maula pistols. With the exception of the planet Arrakis, and for heavier cargo transportation, most ornithopters were equipped with shields. Most 'thopters were winged vessels that were capable of flight through jet propulsion, as well as by mimicking the movements of birds. While the jets were the primary propulsion system, the wings assisted in maintaining altitude, as well as maneuvered the vessels. Carryalls were essentially large ornithopters.
- Ornithopters were a type of aircraft that used flapping wings to fly. On Earth, ornithopters were tested but unfeasible, while on other planets, generally with lighter gravity and thicker atmosphere, they were used. Mordred mentioned the helicopter piloted by Flight Lieutenant Lavel as being like one of the ornithopters on Arthur's World, "but with whirling blades for wings". (TV: Battlefield) The various intelligent insects of Sentarion used ornithopters. Those used by the universities had special markings to identify them. (PROSE: Shakedown) Instead of using buses on Ha'olam, they used ornithopters. (PROSE: Seeing I) Ornithopters were also used on Quinnis. The First Doctor used one whilst on the planet. (AUDIO: Quinnis)
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