A friend of mine is thinking of having a go at modeling the AHL (seems to be a popular choice with computer modelers). I was going through the various references available of AHLs and noted a few anomalies:
Has anyone else looked at these issues? What did you do?
- Standard deck height is 3 meters (including the deck’s thickness). The two fighter hanger decks (69 and 71) are shown in MT’s “Arrival Vengeance” as triple height (so 9 meters). Yet in CT Supplement 6 the text describes them as 18 meters high each. This is more than academic as these decks both have an external airlock (for fighter recovery), so the deck height has an external affect. As the carried fighters are supposed to fit within this, and they appear to be 12 meters long, I think the 18 meter height is more likely.
- The last deck, the Boat Dock Deck, is also problematic. Here, non-fighter small craft are supposed to dock by sliding into tubes that open onto this deck. Four such docks are 3 meter diameter, which would fit the gunboat mentioned in the text and on the classic plans. Now, although they would usually go in the fighter hanger, if one were to use the boat dock deck, and that deck were standard height, then only 3 meters of the 12 meter long gunboat would be inside … the other 9 meters would be hanging out the back in space. Which would look a little odd. I think at least half should be inside, if not more. Let’s say it should be double standard height (6 meters).
- 80 regular decks (3 meters each) plus 2 hangers (18 meters each) plus the lounge (a hemisphere with a radius – and thus height – of 10.5 meters) plus the double height boat dock deck = 292.5 meters. (But the CT text states the length is 405 meters.)
Has anyone else looked at these issues? What did you do?
I'll have to see if I can track down the work I was doing on it last. Might have been in a thread here on CotI but I can't say just how long ago that was, might have been a couple years or more now.
