Patreon: August rewards released

 aircraft, art, drawings, history, news, nukes, Patreon, projects, rockets, spacecraft  7 Responses »
Aug 102014
 

The rewards for my Patreon patrons have now been released. This months selections include:

Diagram: a very large, very nice layout of the Avro Arrow. This was voted on by the top-level patrons.

Document: a report on the Vought Regulus II cruise missile which includes some very nice layout and inboard diagrams of both the operational and test missiles. This was voted for by the top-level patrons.

Document: “Introduction to Kistler Aerospace Corporation,” a full-color brochure from 1995 describing the K-0 sorta-SSTO launch vehicle (which would use an “launch platform”).

Additionally, for the higher-level patrons ($5 and up) there are three all-new CAD diagrams:

1) The Boeing “Big Onion” SSTO from the 1970s, meant to launch Solar Power Satellite components

2) The Space Shuttle Main Engine

3) The Northrop Tacit Blue stealth testbed. This is, so far as I’m aware, the first time that a clear and accurate three-view of this aircraft has been released publicly.

I’ve changed things a little bit from last month. At each patronage level, there are different levels of rewards. Each level has its own message under the “Creations” tab just above the APR logo at my Patreon page. And in the upper righthand corner of each message is a little gray rectangle with “Zip” in it. This is the link to the ZIP archive containing the files for that specific patronage level. If you are a higher-level patron, this may not include all the files you are entitled to. You should be able to download everything from the lower-level patron messages.

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 Posted by at 1:48 am

One-stop lunar base

 art, nukes, projects, rockets, spacecraft  4 Responses »
Aug 092014
 

A 1963 Douglas concept for a simple lunar base: a small pressurized hab that carries with it a robotic “snowblower” that, under control from Earth, spews lunar dirt atop the hab. This is done to provide radiation/thermal/meteoroid shielding. If the hab is actually a “wet lab,” i.e. the actual upper stage, formerly filled with propellants, then this could be a reasonably cost effective approach. The robot is nuclear powered, but it appears that the reactor is not mounted permanently on the robot. instead, the first thing it would seem to do is haul the reactors some distance away, dig a hole, and then burying it (or at least place the reactor in the hole). Extensive power cabling would be needed.

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 Posted by at 11:46 pm

ANED

 blather, books, drawings, history, nukes, weapons  3 Responses »
Aug 082014
 

I haven’t posted much on the “American Nuclear Explosive Devices” project lately. For those interested, don’t worry, work continues; just that since a lot of it is converting photos into CAD diagrams, then erasing a days work and starting over, then going at it again, and so on, it hasn’t been terribly interesting. But there is progress.

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NOTE: I have in most cases high confidence in the accuracy of the external configurations of the nuclear weapons. The internal configuration, however, is rather less trustworthy. Most of the diagrams won’t go into the innards, as that would require pure guesswork on my part; but some do have internal arrangements available to some degree of reliability or another. None, with the possible exception of Fat Man, are detailed enough to build a functioning nuke off of, so no worries there.

 

 Posted by at 3:22 pm

“Little Boy” and “Fat Man” canvas blueprints still on eBay

 art, cyanotype blueprints, drawings, eBay, history, nukes  No Responses »
Aug 042014
 

Th atomic bomb canvas blueprints I put on eBay several weeks back didn’t sell, but eBay keeps rolling over the auction week after week. So if you were interested but just forgot, they’re still available.

I added some to the descriptions. Hopefully the new verbiage will be a bit more enlightening.

 

“Little Boy” atom bomb blueprint on canvas

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“Fat Man” atom bomb blueprint on canvas

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 Posted by at 12:09 pm

One day left: nuke/Saturn blueprints

 cyanotype blueprints, drawings, eBay, history, nukes, rockets, spacecraft  No Responses »
Jul 242014
 

Less than a day left on these ebay auctions. Given the dearth of bids and watchers, it looks like not only will you be able to get them cheap, this’ll be your *only* chance to get them.

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A while back I took a stab at printing cyanotype blueprints on canvas (the kind used by artists for painting on). After a rough start, I managed to get the process to work pretty well. It’s more complex and substantially more expensive than cyanotype printing on vellum paper, so I don’t know if I’ll make canvas blueprints available for regular sale like the paper versions. Still, I’ve put the first three successes on ebay if anyone is interested:

“Little Boy” atom bomb blueprint on canvas

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“Fat Man” atom bomb blueprint on canvas

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Dual Saturn V blueprint on canvas

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 Posted by at 1:45 pm

Not quite the Polaris

 art, history, Hmm..., nukes, projects, rockets, ships  4 Responses »
Jul 232014
 

Found on ebay a while back, an artists concept (almost certainly an AP artist, using imagination more than primary documentation) showing an odd little submarine carrying four Polaris missiles while would launch through the sail. Such concepts *were* studied early on in the process, but I think this one is pure artistic license.

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 Posted by at 10:22 am

Blueprints on canvas

 art, cyanotype blueprints, drawings, eBay, history, new products, news, nukes, rockets, spacecraft, weapons  No Responses »
Jul 182014
 

A while back I took a stab at printing cyanotype blueprints on canvas (the kind used by artists for painting on). After a rough start, I managed to get the process to work pretty well. It’s more complex and substantially more expensive than cyanotype printing on vellum paper, so I don’t know if I’ll make canvas blueprints available for regular sale like the paper versions. Still, I’ve put the first three successes on ebay if anyone is interested:

“Little Boy” atom bomb blueprint on canvas

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“Fat Man” atom bomb blueprint on canvas

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Dual Saturn V blueprint on canvas

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 Posted by at 9:47 am
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