Hey have you ever listened to Wan-Dah-Bah 2199 ? Yes? No? moving on...
The Type 53 is a rather large general purpose transport craft capable of very short takeoff & landing without using gyros (and being fully vanilla). Powered by four ST3 engines derived from Hokori system, albeit this one's uses more conventional layout. Has cockpit fans :D
• All AG are marked & self explanatory
• Slider 2 for tilting the engines (must activate the marked AG)
• Slider 3 for cockpit fans (also must activate the marked AG)(only needed when on the ground)
• Activate bay first before deploying the ramps duhh.
Developed during a brief period of doctrinal uncertainty, it was never assigned a fixed role. It was intended to be adaptable, able to lift off near-vertically, land almost anywhere, and carry something, though what that something was kept changing.
By the time the airframe was finalized, the original requirement "no longer existed".
Rather than cancel the program, the design was registrated as "specialized general transport" and distributed to some facilities, where the Type-53 proved reliable, and quite versatile, as it shares parts with other much more common crafts, lowering maintenance requirements.
The word Mukudori (ムクドリ) usually refers to the white-cheeked grey starling. However, depending on context, it can also carry a slightly shady or dubious meaning.
The craft is named Mukudori because it does, in some way, resemble a grey starling — but considering that most of these aircraft tend to operate in… oddly suspicious places, the double meaning feels rather appropriate.
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