![]() While not quite as glamorous as our other upgrades, I'd argue that the improvements to our primary transport helicopter are the most important by far. I have placed all of these files on your desk for review. ![]() In addition, I have a proposal for a new dedicated attack helicopter design. With this technology, we now have several upgraded models of our existing aircraft (indicated by the "-I" suffix). Or, to put it more poetically: Make sure our pilots don't fly too close to the sun. In more practical terms, the craft is still very much an airplane, and still has to fly and maneuver like one, meaning the combat advantages are not quite as enormous as one might hope. The main advantages the upgrade provides are strategic rather than tactical: Like I've said before, we have rather a lot of planet to cover, and now our planes can go further and get their faster when attempting to intercept UFOs. The fixed setting is necessary because our planes simply weren't designed to go from being two tons to two hundred kilograms and then back again at supersonic speeds the way alien craft seem to be able to. The actual modifications are almost comically simple: the crafts airframe as given structural reinforcement from alien materials, and then a human-designed mass effect field generator provides a mass-decreasing field at a fixed setting. is a set of modifications that can be applied to an existing human aircraft to give it a performance far in excess of even the most optimistic of pre-invasion speculative aviation designs. The Icarus Upgrade Package (the name is a contribution from our pilots, as they're still fully convinced it will blow their planes out from under them, the ungrateful sods). With our newfound ability to manipulate alien materials, we have found a way around this problem. ![]() Any aircraft we built to go that fast would have to be designed from the ground up for it, which would take far more time than we currently have. The hard part isn't getting the aircraft to go faster, it's getting it to go faster without exploding, having its wings fly off, or turning the pilot into paste. At first glance it might seem almost idiotically simple: lower the aircrafts mass, and its acceleration will produce more thrust. The idea of using the Mass Effect to enhance our aircraft has been on the chalkboard almost since we first discovered Element Zero. Hey all, this one is focusing on aircraft. ![]()
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