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Large passenger service vehicles, these usually have a cockpit crew of 3 (pilot and navigator up front, co-pilot in a separate cockpit round the back for better visibility when maneuvering) and can take up to a few hundred passengers. Unlike a [[shuttle]], these will have engines somewhere around the midsection in order to make them more stable when accellerating. Unfortunately, this increase in stability necessitates 2 or 3 engines which are either bolted to opposite sides of the ship, or (especially in the case of hotter [[piles|Vapour Pile]]) on wings or nacelles protruding from the sides. | Large passenger service vehicles, these usually have a cockpit crew of 3 (pilot and navigator up front, co-pilot in a separate cockpit round the back for better visibility when maneuvering) and can take up to a few hundred passengers. Unlike a [[shuttle]], these will have engines somewhere around the midsection in order to make them more stable when accellerating. Unfortunately, this increase in stability necessitates 2 or 3 engines which are either bolted to opposite sides of the ship, or (especially in the case of hotter [[piles|Vapour Pile]]) on wings or nacelles protruding from the sides. | ||
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Revision as of 13:16, 8 March 2007
Large passenger service vehicles, these usually have a cockpit crew of 3 (pilot and navigator up front, co-pilot in a separate cockpit round the back for better visibility when maneuvering) and can take up to a few hundred passengers. Unlike a shuttle, these will have engines somewhere around the midsection in order to make them more stable when accellerating. Unfortunately, this increase in stability necessitates 2 or 3 engines which are either bolted to opposite sides of the ship, or (especially in the case of hotter Vapour Pile) on wings or nacelles protruding from the sides.
