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USS Archangel / USS Archangel NCC-73601: Secondary Shuttle Bay Refit
« on: May 18, 2009, 09:44:52 PM »
The Secondary Shuttle Bay IE Fighter Hanger or Flight Bay
The secondary shuttle bay takes up the majority of the Aft sections of decks 14-16. This is the home for the Archangel's flight of fighter craft. While ships like a Galaxy class are capable of carrying a full Fighter Wing. Other ships are capable of carrying smaller units where as an Akira could carry two wings.
The Archangel is capable of carrying a Flight (6 fighters composed of three elements of 2) in it's Aft Shuttle bay. It could be possible for her to carry two flights, but not an Entire Squadron, and with Carrying two flights it takes away from the ships Diplomatic and Exploratory nature
DECK FOURTEEN
Deck fourteen houses the Office of the "Commander Air Group". This office is sparse compared to the Commanding Officer's or even the Executive Officer's. It features a desk, and a small couch. A short corridor outside the room is usually used as an access to and from the turbo shaft down to the flight deck, and the pilot's briefing room.
The Pilot Briefing room is connected to the CAG Office through a short corridor, which meets at a shared turboshaft. the briefing room has windows on the Aft wall which over look the shuttle deck and doors below. The shape of the conference table matches the curvature of the exterior hull, and has seating and data pads for ten individuals. The CAG usually sits at the head of the table, on the port side. Two display screens are located at either side of the room, behind the table and adjacent to the doors. The briefing room has two replicator terminals.
DECK FIFTEEN
The Secondary Shuttlebay is located at the very aft portion of the Engineering hull, a homage to the Constitution-class shuttlebay. This bay, while smaller than the primary shuttlebay, has been retrofitted to be the primary port for entrance and egress, as well the as management of the Archangel's flight of fighter craft. This bay (referred to as Fighter Bay or Hanger Bay) is maintained by the team of fighter pilots, engineers technicians, and operations personnel that are based on the flight operations office under the supervision of the CAG.
The flight decks two lifts can carry two fighters from the cavernous hangar bay to the flight deck in seconds. The flight deck crew can launch two fighters and land one every minute under optimum conditions, and launch one per two minutes under duress.
Launch maneuvers and landing approach piloting is managed by a number of precision short-range tractor beams emitters located within the bay and the bays exterior just outside the bay doors. These emitters are computer controlled under the direction of the flight deck officer, permitting the safe maneuvering of the fighters within the bays, and the 350 meter approach zone.
Upon Launch the emitters act as a high powered catapult, accelerating the fighter from 0 to 321 KPH in two seconds. To land in the bay, incoming fighters moving at 241 kph are snared and engaged with four arresting emitters, stopping the fighter 9 meters within the hanger bay doors.
The Hanger bay exterior doors are triple layered compressible extruded duranium.. Inner doors are composed of lightweight neofoam sheeting in an expanded titanium frame work. During active fighter operations, atmospheric integrity is maintained by an annular force field, which permits both doors to remain open to allow fighter ingress and egress without depressurizing the bay.
This annular force field has also been fitted with the same scanners as the transporter bio filter. Normally used only on ingress to the ship, this field scans the incoming matter and looks for patterns corresponding to known dangerous bacterial or viral forms. Upon detection of such patterns, the bio filter interacts with the ships transporter systems and excises these particles from the incoming fighter, thus eliminating the need for a decontamination suite.
The Flight Bay has it's own operations control booth, which is supervised by an on-duty flight deck officer. The Fighter Flight Deck Officer is responsible for the operations within the flight bay, but must report to the CAG for launch and landing clearance. In turn the CAG must seek clearance from the Operations Manager, or if under a tactical alert the Chief Tactical Officer on the main bridge.
DECK SIXTEEN
The Archangel's Fighter compliment is stored, repaired, and maintained on deck sixteen. The fighters are moved from the hanger bay to deck fifteen via one of two heavy lifts which again are capable of carrying two fighters from the cavernous hangar bay to the flight deck in seconds. when the lifts are not flush with deck fifteen, The lift opening on deck fifteen's floor is secured by blast doors.
Each fighter is housed in it's own individual, self contained storage unit known as a "rack". Each rack is a sectioned off portion of the bay reminiscent of 20th century earth cubicles made of 15cm thick sheets of transparent aluminum. Each fighter's rack can be personalized by the pilot assigned to that rack. Such personalization could include an equipment locker, tools, and other minor personal items. Fighter Pilots are assigned quarters on board the Archangel and are not allowed to bunk in their rack. There are a total of 8 racks on the hanger deck, 4 on the port (Gryphon) side, and 4 on the Starboard (Valkyrie) side. With only the transparent aluminum separating one rack from another.
Movement from the racks to the lifts is controlled by the same tractor emitter array as on the flight deck. The causeway down the center line of the racks is large enough that any single fighter can be maneuvered and turned without the risk of contacting any of the ships superstructure. this allows the fighters to be properly rotated for placement on the lifts.
Maintenance facilities include replacement parts sufficient for twelve months of of normal star ship operations. This includes one replacement Gryphon and Valkyrie space frame (Stored in the fourth rack per side) which can be used for refurbishment of a severely damaged fighter. The Maintenance bay includes all tools required for a pilot to repair, and even make slight "personalization" modifications to their fighter.
Note that replicator usage can allow for fabrication of any critical missing part, but large scale replication is not energy efficient except in emergency situations. However, in such situations, power usage is usually strictly limited, so it is unwise to depend on the availability of replicated parts. this is the reason that the Archangel must maintain a significant supply of spare parts in inventory at all times.
The secondary shuttle bay takes up the majority of the Aft sections of decks 14-16. This is the home for the Archangel's flight of fighter craft. While ships like a Galaxy class are capable of carrying a full Fighter Wing. Other ships are capable of carrying smaller units where as an Akira could carry two wings.
The Archangel is capable of carrying a Flight (6 fighters composed of three elements of 2) in it's Aft Shuttle bay. It could be possible for her to carry two flights, but not an Entire Squadron, and with Carrying two flights it takes away from the ships Diplomatic and Exploratory nature
DECK FOURTEEN
Deck fourteen houses the Office of the "Commander Air Group". This office is sparse compared to the Commanding Officer's or even the Executive Officer's. It features a desk, and a small couch. A short corridor outside the room is usually used as an access to and from the turbo shaft down to the flight deck, and the pilot's briefing room.
The Pilot Briefing room is connected to the CAG Office through a short corridor, which meets at a shared turboshaft. the briefing room has windows on the Aft wall which over look the shuttle deck and doors below. The shape of the conference table matches the curvature of the exterior hull, and has seating and data pads for ten individuals. The CAG usually sits at the head of the table, on the port side. Two display screens are located at either side of the room, behind the table and adjacent to the doors. The briefing room has two replicator terminals.
DECK FIFTEEN
The Secondary Shuttlebay is located at the very aft portion of the Engineering hull, a homage to the Constitution-class shuttlebay. This bay, while smaller than the primary shuttlebay, has been retrofitted to be the primary port for entrance and egress, as well the as management of the Archangel's flight of fighter craft. This bay (referred to as Fighter Bay or Hanger Bay) is maintained by the team of fighter pilots, engineers technicians, and operations personnel that are based on the flight operations office under the supervision of the CAG.
The flight decks two lifts can carry two fighters from the cavernous hangar bay to the flight deck in seconds. The flight deck crew can launch two fighters and land one every minute under optimum conditions, and launch one per two minutes under duress.
Launch maneuvers and landing approach piloting is managed by a number of precision short-range tractor beams emitters located within the bay and the bays exterior just outside the bay doors. These emitters are computer controlled under the direction of the flight deck officer, permitting the safe maneuvering of the fighters within the bays, and the 350 meter approach zone.
Upon Launch the emitters act as a high powered catapult, accelerating the fighter from 0 to 321 KPH in two seconds. To land in the bay, incoming fighters moving at 241 kph are snared and engaged with four arresting emitters, stopping the fighter 9 meters within the hanger bay doors.
The Hanger bay exterior doors are triple layered compressible extruded duranium.. Inner doors are composed of lightweight neofoam sheeting in an expanded titanium frame work. During active fighter operations, atmospheric integrity is maintained by an annular force field, which permits both doors to remain open to allow fighter ingress and egress without depressurizing the bay.
This annular force field has also been fitted with the same scanners as the transporter bio filter. Normally used only on ingress to the ship, this field scans the incoming matter and looks for patterns corresponding to known dangerous bacterial or viral forms. Upon detection of such patterns, the bio filter interacts with the ships transporter systems and excises these particles from the incoming fighter, thus eliminating the need for a decontamination suite.
The Flight Bay has it's own operations control booth, which is supervised by an on-duty flight deck officer. The Fighter Flight Deck Officer is responsible for the operations within the flight bay, but must report to the CAG for launch and landing clearance. In turn the CAG must seek clearance from the Operations Manager, or if under a tactical alert the Chief Tactical Officer on the main bridge.
DECK SIXTEEN
The Archangel's Fighter compliment is stored, repaired, and maintained on deck sixteen. The fighters are moved from the hanger bay to deck fifteen via one of two heavy lifts which again are capable of carrying two fighters from the cavernous hangar bay to the flight deck in seconds. when the lifts are not flush with deck fifteen, The lift opening on deck fifteen's floor is secured by blast doors.
Each fighter is housed in it's own individual, self contained storage unit known as a "rack". Each rack is a sectioned off portion of the bay reminiscent of 20th century earth cubicles made of 15cm thick sheets of transparent aluminum. Each fighter's rack can be personalized by the pilot assigned to that rack. Such personalization could include an equipment locker, tools, and other minor personal items. Fighter Pilots are assigned quarters on board the Archangel and are not allowed to bunk in their rack. There are a total of 8 racks on the hanger deck, 4 on the port (Gryphon) side, and 4 on the Starboard (Valkyrie) side. With only the transparent aluminum separating one rack from another.
Movement from the racks to the lifts is controlled by the same tractor emitter array as on the flight deck. The causeway down the center line of the racks is large enough that any single fighter can be maneuvered and turned without the risk of contacting any of the ships superstructure. this allows the fighters to be properly rotated for placement on the lifts.
Maintenance facilities include replacement parts sufficient for twelve months of of normal star ship operations. This includes one replacement Gryphon and Valkyrie space frame (Stored in the fourth rack per side) which can be used for refurbishment of a severely damaged fighter. The Maintenance bay includes all tools required for a pilot to repair, and even make slight "personalization" modifications to their fighter.
Note that replicator usage can allow for fabrication of any critical missing part, but large scale replication is not energy efficient except in emergency situations. However, in such situations, power usage is usually strictly limited, so it is unwise to depend on the availability of replicated parts. this is the reason that the Archangel must maintain a significant supply of spare parts in inventory at all times.
