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[HullTec] B17-X Flying Fortress (SciFi)

Another entry for my Sci-Fi WW2 Aircrafts. This time it's a big bird :-D
- 1 mod ("battlecannon and turrets". You can use either my version or the original one)

This is my take on the famous B17 Flying Fortress. This one was very difficult to build due to it's size.

Description:
- Small grid multicrew airplane/spaceship
- mainly atmo+ion thrusters and some small hydrogen thrusters (forward only) that can bring the ship from earth into space with enough ice on board
- medium cargo containers
- airtight
- 5 large reactors (although 4 could be enough but it's still very power hungry)
- multiple seats
- connector
- you can walk around in it

How to use the connector:
- to connect the B17 to a connector on the ground you can lower the suspension by hitting button 5 several times (left pilot seat)

How to reach space:
- I reached space by deactivating the hydrogen thrusters (button 7) at first, then climbing up to 5500-6000m with atmo and ion thrusters and then reactivating the hydrogen thrusters when the ship starts losing altitude. Since the hydrogen thrusters are forward only (like a rocket boost), you will have to pull up and go straight up like a space rocket. (works with my other WW2 scifi planes, too)

Why no bombs?
- Adding bombs to a narrow grid like this is really hard, but I'm planning to experiment with this a bit next weekend. Maybe I will be able to come up with a system that allows me to print warheads with a projector and drop them like a bomb carpet or something like that.

The turrets are not centered?
- yes, because I had to make the whole ship 1 block wider to fit in the two pilot seats. It also looked a bit strange before. I had to choose between "good proportions but not 100% symmetrical" and "not so good proportions but therefore symmetrical".

Why a weapon mod?
- because the vanilla turrets take too much space and it looked really bad.