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Olympus 217 Aerospace VTOL (No Mods)

Olympus 217 Aerospace VTOL.

Designed as a lighter and more vesatile replacement to the ageing Olympus 202, the model 217 keeps the fuselage and cabin of the older 202, but removes the fixed Hydrogen, Ion and electric turbine method of propulsion and replaces it with a unique rotor mounted VTOL system that uses only electrically powered Ion and Atmospheric thrusters. The result is one of Olympus Aerospace's most commercially successful surface-to-orbit tranport vessels to date.

The Olympus 217 is a powerful single-stage-to-orbit (SSTO) aerospace transport VTOL that is capable of ferrying 8 passengers and limited cargo to and from the surface of any of the vanilla moons and planets available in Space Engineers. It uses a unique VTOL system where both the front and rear VTOL rotors can be switched from vertical to horizontal flight at the press of a button. Just remember that due to the poor rotor torque strength of vanilla Space Engineers, the thrusters will cut off for a brief second while the rotors are moving to their new positions, so make sure that you only switch VTOL modes when it is safe to do so.

Name: Olympus 217
Type: Aerospace Transport VTOL
Manufacturer: Olympus Aerospace
Mass: 136,811 kg
Block Count: 2,123
Length: 23.0 m
Height: 7.5 m
Width: 14.0 m
Thruster Acceleration Forward in Vacuum: 8.88 m/s/s
Thruster Acceleration Upward in 1G: 22.00 m/s/s
Area of Operation: All Environments
Weapons: None


*Author's Notes*
As a special way of saying thank you to all my incredible subscribers and awsome viewers out there - I've released the Olympus 217 and it's military variant the MS-7 Wyvern from my "Space Engineers: Into the Unknown" YouTube series on the Steam workshop for you guys to play around with in-game.
As for what influenced the design and creation of this craft, this actually started out as something that was built out of the wrecks of several craft that were salvaged during a quick survival campaign I was playing last year, but the main inspiration comes from the VU-4 Habrok dropship by ActionHank and the Wawel Dragon by Peter Hammerman, with a little bit of the Dropship from the movie 'Aliens' thrown in for good measure... The end result however has far exceeded our expectations, but again, none of this would have been possible without the amazing Whip's Rotor Thruster Manager script by Whiplash141.

[EU] VU-4 Habrok Dropship by Action Hank
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=539606332
&
Wawel Dragon by PeterHammerman
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=822173603


-=Credits=-

Scripts used:
Whip's Artificial Horizon Redux by Whiplash141
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1721247350

3D Ship Projection by Georgik
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=795436803

Whip's Rotor Thruster Manager by Whiplash141
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=757123653