I’ve had three customers in the last few days tell em they didn’t get their V3N2 download instructions… even though I sent the emails (and found them in my “sent” file). So there seems to be something a little screwy going on with email. So if you paid but didn’t get, just send me an email.
As an experiment, I’ve put up two eBay listings for APR issue V3N1. If you don’t have a copy of it, it’s currently listed with a starting bid of a whopping great $1.00.
The two listings:
Convair NEXUS Super-Booster Rocket SSTO, gas core nuclear rocket upper stage
Convair XP-92 ramjet-powered delta winged supersonic interceptor concept
At long last, Aerospace Projects Review issue V3N2 is now available.
The main article, about 90 pages worth, covers the Lockheed STAR Clipper concept.This was a one-and-a-half stage space shuttle concept. Starting in 1968 for the USAF, the concept lasted well into Phase B of the Space Shuttle program for NASA, and in altered form into the 1990’s. This article has a very large number of detailed schematics of many different forms, including the original small 1.5 Stage To Orbit design, numerous variations on that concept, fully reusable two stage versions with manned boosters, giant concepts for Solar Power Satellite logistics and miniature versions for the USAF in the 1980s.
Also included is an article covering antecedents and derivatives of the Northrop F-23 stealth fighter. Included are early designs such as the “Christmas fighter” and several “platypus” concepts, the F-23A operational fighter design, the NATF-23 concept for the US Navy with aft mounted wings and canards, the single-engined Multi Role Fighter (from the competition that led to the F-35) and perhaps most interestingly, the F/B-23 regional bomber, of eBay infamy. This article is illustrated with a mix of photos of official Northrop display models, official Northrop diagrams, all-new scale diagrams and color artwork especially commissioned for this article.
Dennis R. Jenkins provides an article on a Convair concept for converting the F-106 interceptor into a small supersonic transport. Compare this to Convair idea of converting the B-58 Hustler into an SST!
And finally, two aerospace history “nuggets,” the Vanguard Model 18 VTOL transport and a Northrop laminar flow control multipurpose long-duration aircraft.
You can see the entire issue here:
It is available in three formats. Firstly, it can be downloaded directly from me for the low, low price of $10. Second, it can be purchased as a professionally printed volume through Magcloud; third, it can be procured in both formats. To get the download, simply pay for it here through paypal.
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To get the printed version (or print + PDF version), visit my MagCloud page:
I assembled the major chunks of APR V3N2 and converted it into a PDF file. While the process turned a few images into gibberish, overall it was error-free. So It’s looking like a 142-page issue. The inside of the back cover is a big blank space… so if anyone wants a full-page, full-color ad and can get it to me on Wednesday (as in today), it’s yours for $50. If you can get it to me tomorrow… $75.
Overall it looks pretty good to me. I’ve got to stop with the mega-articles, though.
APR issue V3N2 is just about done. All the articles have been written; I’m just working on some editing and some artwork. Hopefully it should be available by the end of the week.
This issue will have an article by Dennis Jenkins on a transport version of the F-106; a large (90+ page) article on the Lockheed STAR Clipper and descendant designs for a 1.5-stage-to-orbit Space Shuttle concept; and a sizable article on antecedents and derivatives of the Northrop F-23, including the “Christmas Fighter,” the NATF-23 carrier-based fighter, the operational F-23A design, the single-engined Multi-Role Fighter and the near-legendary F/B-23 tactical bomber.
In putting this issue together, there are some blank spots on a few pages, a result of formatting the text and images. The way most magazines deal with that is to hire editors who can arrange things professionally… and to stuff the magazine full of ads. I can’t afford the former. So I’ve decided to sell ad space.
What I’m offering is to put your “classified-style” ad in the issue for five bucks ($5). I don’t have many hard and fast rules here, just these:
If interested, send me an email letting me know, or drop a comment below. Don’t pay just yet… I’ll wait till I see what sort of response I get and how many I can fit in.
Juuuuuust about there. The big article this time is on the Lockheed STAR Clipper and descendants; it runs about 90 pages, and has approximately half a page of text yet to finish, plus adding in the references. The article on F-23 antecedents/descendants is done… but I’ve got some color artwork coming in from an artist, should be here in a few days. I was hoping to have the issue wrapped up this weekend, but it’s looking like it’ll be early next week. After editing and all, it looks like this issue will be in the area of 140 pages.
Y’all might’ve noticed a slight decrease in bloggification of late. Partly due to the pneumonia – which I’m just about over at this point, save for an annoying cough – but mostly due to me being buried in Aerospace Projects Review. I’ve got *three* APR projects coming along, hopefully to be released in the near future.
A preview of the next APR, showing the planforms of four F-23-related designs overlaid to scale.
I have a brief article on the Boeing Space Freighter in the latest issue (July/August 2011) of “Horizons,” the newsletter of the Houston AIAA chapter. Free to download here:
Problems, problems. After numerous issues of late with blogs and such, a while back I decided to create spinoff blogs (such as the one devoted to my photos, started a month and a half back). I obtained several new domains, but before I could start copying stuff over, something screwy happened which cost me time, trouble and money, turning the Unwanted Blog into a blank screen. So once I got it back I’ve been devoting too much time and trouble to getting the new blogs up and running. The first of them is:
http://www.aerospaceprojectsreview.com/blog/
It is pretty much what is sounds like it’d be… aircraft and spacecraft project posts, along with APR updates. None of the humor or brilliant political analysis y’all have come to know and loathe about the Unwanted Blog. It looks different… because efforts to get it up and running using the “Suffusion” theme, what’s currently running on the Unwanted Blog, were surprisingly unsuccessful. The banner image wouldn’t come up, dashboard pages were blank screens half the time, so on. Efforts to close out suffusion and replace it with something else uniformly failed; I had to erase all the files and re-load the WordPress blog base codes. Ugh. So I’m assuming that something screwy is going on with the Suffusion theme… which I bet will eventually strike the Unwanted Blog.
The Unwanted Blog will – at least until it explodes – continue on much as it has. If you like the wide variety of utter bilge that I post here, then the UB will be the place to be. But if you come here only for the projects stuff… the APR Blog will probably be the place to relocate your bookmark. Right now there’s not much over there. Over time, I will not only copy over the new posts from the UB, but I’ll also go back through the “projects” category of the UB and copy over selected and re-edited posts.
So feel free to tell everyone you know about the APR blog. All projects, all the time.