Craft & Equipment: CLOUDBASE - MAIN BODY AND    LOWER FLIGHT DECK    

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CLOUDBASE

MAIN BODY AND LOWER FLIGHT DECK

CUTAWAYS

1. Engine room control center.
2. Fixed-mode anti-gravity generator: keeps Cloudbase aloft in conjunction with hover combine.
3. Electric turbines: powered by solar energy, they supply heat, lighting, and power for the life-support systems.
4. Life-support systems.
5. Variable mode anti-gravity generator: also produces force fields including heat shielding.
6. Water supply pipes.
7. Excess heat from reactor is piped through heating ducts to the six underside tubes running the length of Cloudbase.  This and the solar energy panels prevent Cloudbase, and in particular its flight deck, from freezing at such a high altitude.
8. Reactor housing support stanchion.
9. Oxygen tanks (?).
10. Aircraft fuel tanks.
11. Processed-waste dispersal nozzle.
12. Solar energy panels.
13. Filtered air-conditioning inlets
14. Access passage: links command center to flight deck.
15. SEE HOVER COMBINES (SOON)
16. In emergency landing situations, Spectrafan lifts to a horizontal position to stop incoming aircraft.
17. Spectrafan hydraulic lift system.
18. Lower flight deck (runway).
19. SPJ hanger.

20. Spectrum Helicopter hanger.

21. Higher runway - SEE UPPER FLIGHT DECK
22. Angel pilots sleeping accomodation (SEE AMBER ROOM).

23. AMBER ROOM.
24. Staff cantine.
25. Spectra-mart staff shop.
26. Lecture theatre.
27. Seminar room.
28. Conference rooms.
29. Emergency airlocks.
30. Gymnasium
31. Physical training and drill hall.
32. Helicopter landing pad: can be lowered to medical center level (SEE MEDICAL CENTER).
33. Life recovery unit: a computer aided operating theater used by Captain Scarlet if he has sustained life-threatening injuries on active service (SEE MEDICAL CENTER).
34. Women's ward (SEE MEDICAL CENTER).
35. Main operating theatre (SEE MEDICAL CENTER).
36. Airlock: allows access from landing pad to medical center (SEE MEDICAL CENTER).
37. Doctor Fawn's office.
38. Auditorium.
39. Communication antenna
40. Bursar's office.
41. Recreation rooms
42. Crew accomodation.
43. SEE CONTROL TOWER.

ENGINE ROOM

This picture above (taken from the Captain Scarlet Annual 1967) shows  a blueprint from Cloudbase engine room, set at the lower deck of Cloudbase. Over twenty engines serve to make Cloudbase self-sufficient,  using a unique principle found nowhere else in the world.  Sun rays are accumulated in a receiver and converted into energy waves, to be fed into the engines, thus providing power, electricity, life-support, heating, etc. It also produced the energy necessary for the four HOVER COMBINES that keep the air-floated base in the air.  The incessant buzz of those huge cahelium engines is cut down to a minimum by soundproofed walls.    The engine room is constantly checked by supervisors in the Engine Control Room.

These pictures (Above: also taken from the same Annual - and right: from one of Ron Embleton's drawings) show the engine room control center (1, in cutaways above), from which supervisors control Cloudbase huge engines through the showed control panels.  Those panels, rising from the floor to the ceiling,  are complemented with hundreds of dials and flashing lights.  The supervisor only has to press a button to pin-point the detailed engineering components of each engine, across a videoscreen scanner, simultaneously programmed into a computer for maintenance check.  Any trouble coming from any of the engines can be found on the spot and dealt with no delay.

While the runway on upper flight deck is strictly reserved for the Angel craft, other aircraft, like the Spectrum Passenger Jet or any other planes, have to land and take off on the much larger, lower flight runway thus keeping the upper flight deck constantly free of any aircraft other than the Angel, and always ready for use.  Landing on the lower flight deck is traditional, or  is done to the vertical, depending on the craft (A SPJ lands traditionally). Upon landing, the craft  will be brought down deck to the hanger  (19, on the cutaways), through a trap moved by hydraulics.  Then its pilot and passengers will be able to leave it, and directly stepped inside Cloudbase, without being exposed to the uncomfortable cold of high altitude.

And action scene from showing the interior of the aircraft/SPJ hanger (Ron Embleton, "Unity City".)

A drawing from Ron Embleton, showing a plane making a landing on Cloudbase.

The lift, taking a plane from the aircraft hanger to the runway above. (Ron Embleton, "Unity City".) 

An SPJ waiting for take-off on the lower deck runway.  Note, in the background, the higher deck.  With two separated deck, the Angels can be launched from the higher deck, at the the same time as any other craft on the lower deck.

The same SPJ, in a rare take-off sequence (both photos from "The Trap" episode).

SPECTRA-FAN 

Set at the end of the lower deck runway, the Spectra-Fan (16 on the cutaways)  serves to stop the Angel aircraft from crashing during emergency landing.  Hydraulic lifts (17) hoist the fan into position.  So effective is this fan-duct and so intense is the pressure created that a craft travelling at over 500 mph is stopped dead in its tracks.  The pressure from the fan is equal to over 500 tons per square centimetre.

Follow-up to the preceding crash: the Angel craft slides down the higher runway and then ends up on the lower deck. An accident to which Captain Scarlet does not survive. (both photos from "Attack on Cloudbase")

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MAIN BODY AND LOWER FLIGHT DECK

AMBER ROOM AND UPPER FLIGHT DECK

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CLOUDBASE - ANGEL AIRCRAFT - SPECTRUM PURSUIT VEHICLE (SPV) -

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