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Dyna Soar wind tunnel model diagram

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May 262012
 

A 1962 Boeing diagram of the Model 844-2050 Dyna Soar configuration (almost the final configuration) as a 0.0666 scale wind tunnel model. Nothing too spectacular, but it does illustrate one detail rarely seen: the heat shield actuator mast.

The forward-facing windows were covered with an ejectable heat shield on the Dyna Soar until well after re-entry in order to protect them from excessive heating. The actuator mast would be a piston that would raise the front of the heat shield after the spaceplane had re-entered and slowed to subsonic; the “wind” would then get under the shield and lift it away from the spaceplane. I’ve seen very little on this mast… I don’t know if it would then retract, or if it would simply stay  in place through landing. None of the artwork I’ve seen has ever depicted it in any fashion… the heat shield is always there until it’s simply gone. Associated photos of the wind tunnel model do not show the mast.

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Dyna Soar model

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Oct 292011
 

A few years back I got to poke around a little bit in the NASM Garber facility. Lighting was not the best and some areas were photography-discouraged, but there were a few things that I got some photos of. One was a large model of an early Boeing Dyna Soar configuration. It may have originally been a wind tunnel model that was repurposed into a display model, or it may have been a display model from the get-go (kinda big, though).

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Early Dyna Soar Art

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Aug 052011
 

Boeings design that won the Dyna Soar competition was an odd, odd little thing. All sharp edges and fins like a 57 Cadillac, it wound up looking almost nothing like the Dyna Soar that almost got built. Irritatingly for Bell Aerospace, the final Dyna Soar design looked a *lot* like the Bell entry. The winning Boeing entry was just very, very wrong. The baseline launch vehicle for it, for instance, was a kludged-together monstrosity composed of Minuteman ICBM stages clustered together. Of course, Minuteman had the advantage of being a Boeing product, so there ya go.

Another oddity about the Boeing design is that even though it won, and you can get some pretty detailed drawings and wind tunnel reports and whatnot about many of the competing designs… the Boeing design  is rarely depicted with much more detail than a bare three-view. It’s like they phoned it in, not expecting to win… and they won anyway.

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Dyna Soar/Titan III

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Jul 182011
 

I have spent fifteen years trying to find a good layout drawing of the final Dyna Soar design atop the Titan IIIC booster. Since the Dyna Soar prototype was approximately 40% complete when the program was cancelled, and the Titan IIIC spent several decades launching payloads, it would seem obvious that such diagrams *must* have been created and at a whole bunch of levels of detail. Sadly, diagrams of the Dyna Soar/Titan IIIC air vehicle are few and far between and generally of small size and low detail. Below is the best I’ve got… pretty good, but obviously not fully detailed. If anyone happens to know of better, I’d be very interested.

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Space Drawing 24: Dyna Soar/Titan II part 1

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Jul 152011
 

New Space Drawing: part one of a set of diagrams showing the Dyna Soar spaceplane and it’s Titan II suborbital booster.

You get:

1: Martin Drawing 388-0400000: An inboard profile & section view of the Titan II booster with Dyna Soar. A grayscale scan of an “artistic” presentation of the diagram, airbrushed. 11,525 X 2268 pixels.

2: Martin Drawing 388-0400000: An inboard profile & section view of the Titan II booster with Dyna Soar. A grayscale scan of  the basic engineering line diagram. 17,275 X 3300 pixels.

3: Martin Model 388-1: An inboard profile & section view of the Titan II booster with Dyna Soar. A black-and-white scan of  the basic engineering line diagram. 17,067 X 3358 pixels.

4: Booster – Complete, Martin drawing 388-1000000. A grayscale scan of a complete overview of the Dyna Soar/Titan II booster air vehicle. 4750 x 2756 pixels.

5: Structural Configuration, Martin drawing 388-1000000. A black & white scan of the internal structure of the Dyna Soar/Titan II booster air vehicle. 20,154 x 3367 pixels.

All drawings come in JPG format and GIF format, as well as “halfsize” and “quartersize” versions for easier viewing & printing.

Space Drawing 24 is a 41 megabyte ZIP file, and is available for $5.50.

 

Be sure to check out my other Air & Space Drawings & Documents!

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Space Drawing 25: Dyna Soar/Titan II part 2

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Jul 152011
 

New Space Drawing: part two of a set of diagrams showing the Dyna Soar spaceplane and its Titan II suborbital booster.

You get:

1: Martin Drawing 388-0400098, Oxidizer Tank Fwd Skirt & Blast Shield, Stage II: Details both the forward end of the Titan II second stage as well as providing geometric data on the Dyna Soar stansition section and abort solid rocket motor.  A grayscale scan of the diagram. 4700 X 2666 pixels.

2: Structural Configuration. A grayscalescan of a presentation version of the internal structure of the Dyna Soar/Titan II booster air vehicle, airbrushed. 11,522 x 2814 pixels.

3: Fin Structure. A grayscalescan of a presentation version of the structural configuration of the large yaw and pitch fins mounted near the base of the Titan II, airbrushed. 4435 x 2781 pixels.

All drawings come in JPG format and GIF format, as well as “halfsize” and “quartersize” versions for easier viewing & printing.

Space Drawing 25is a 47 megabyte ZIP file, and is available for $4.50.

Be sure to check out my other Air & Space Drawings & Documents!

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