Aug 282011
One of the more influential books on spaceflight engineering was Maxwell Hunter’s “Thrust Into Space.” It’s one of those rare volumes that not only explains the physics and requirements well with appropriate math, it does so in a readable way. Sadly, it was only released in a few editions back in the late 60’s, and can be damned difficult to find, and expensive (there’s been one on ebay for several years now with a buy-it-now price of $350).
I’ve often thought that “Thrust” would be a good book to re-release. Since it’s a copyrighted work, I’ve not made the effort, but I always wished that someone would. Well… turns out that in 2009, someone did. And made it available for free as a PDF. Huh.
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thx for link
Thanks for the link again! It’s on the Kindle now. May make the ordeal of waiting to be excused from jury duty a little more bearable. Or maybe not, as this poor schmoe of an aviation history buff found out:
http://boston.com/community/blogs/on_liberty/2011/08/racial_profiling_first_hand.html
What’s the copyright side of this situation? Will Kinko’s continue to avoid printing it out?
THANK YOU!
I’ve wanted to read that book for decades!
Aurora’s model “Impetus” nuclear powered SST was supposed to be based on concepts in it, and was to use a advanced reactor to superheat water into high temperature steam for propulsion:
http://modelarchives.free.fr/archives_P/Aplane/Aplane_Impetus_K.html