Air/Raft

TL8 Cr600.000, 4 tons.

A light anti-gravity vehicle which uses nullgrav modules to counteract gravity for lift and propulsion. An air/raft can cruise at 100 kph (but is extremely subject to wind effects), with some capability of higher speed to about 120 kph. An air/raft can reach orbit in several hours (number of hours equal to planetary size digit in the UPP); passengers must wear vacc suits and interplanetary travel in an air/raft is not possible. Range in time or distance on a world is effectively unlimited, requiring refueling from a ship’s power plant every ten weeks or so. An air/raft can carry four persons plus four tons of cargo. The air/raft is unpressurised and usually open-topped.

(except from The Traveller Book)

(pictures by Wayne Peters from The Traveller Calendar 2007)

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