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LAS Sancho Pansa marine shuttle AX-1 (vanilla, small ship w working airlock)

Greetings!

The AX-1 is a new type of shuttle that uses an already published airlock, tough slightly modified (see link on door) to create a small craft for 4 passengers and a pilot, that can be accessed on foot. Under pressure. In a hangar.

A standard, vanilla airlock of three (maybe 2 - still testing) airtight hangar doors is enough for this long range shuttle to enter the hangar. [Assembly is two airtight hangar doors vice versa, these three times = nice vanilla hangar bay.]

The armament and subsystems are heavy duty standard, with four forward firing gatling guns and two rocketlaunchers, as well as powerful batteries, a fuelcell engine (24+ hours operating time on batteries + fuelcell and oxygen generator) and strong ion engines. Seven small ammunition bins hold some reloads, as does the connector for the dual rocket launchers - a seizable ammunition storage for a mere shuttle. That was the inspiration for this small ships glorious name - Sancho Pansa. (Please correct me for typos, accents, special signs, I appreciate that, as I would not like to see errors.)

The AX-1 also carries dual gatling turrets, enabling the radar system once activated. Combined with the relatively heavy armor, the Sanch Pansa is well suited for boarding operations and soldier transport.

The AX-2 will soon be ready, final tests are run, dropping the main thrusters, turrets, a lot of armor and thus production effort. The variant will be a point to point shuttle.

Both small ships are equipped with three CPU blocks, MMasters LCD2, Georiks 3D ship projection and Whiplash141s turret based radar script. A conventional antenna, beacon, remote control and the fully automated airlock complete the electronics layout. I am still tinkering with the most convenient layout for the pilots controls - so maybe some panels are altered.

A word: flying the design requires some skill, as a pilot must use inertia and the gyroscopes to effectively move the craft. Thus, docking is far less risky, as even the most eager pilot has to rely on comparatively lackluster thrust for the task. In open space though, what is a hinderance on first glance, is a main advantage of the compact design, as fewer large thrusters are needed.

Credits for working out the airtight airlock and its realisation (I failed several times due to KEEN bugs...) by the user ENKAR.
https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1448256571

This very design - in the airlock shut variant should work in survival - and theoretically in construction. As of the latest patch, the projector seems to bug out, so I chose not to include the self repair system yet. (projector is installed and aligned properly tough)