Because why not: until midnight or so I’m going to run a sale on US Bomber Projects. In short, all 8 current issues, plus the Preview, plus the two current 11X17 drawing packages, for 40% off for the whole block. Normally that would run $60, but for the duration of the sale, get everything all at once for $36.00.
Sale has ended.
UPDATE: And so, the aloted time period ends, as does availability of these items. Huzzah.
I am making available, for a limited time, four bound volumes of large format diagrams. These are 11X17 line-drawing CAD diagrams produced by yours truly, bound in red pressboard report covers (why? because that’s classy, that’s why).
I had not planned on releasing these, but I had also not taken into account the fact that the IRS will very soon be demanding a sizable income tax check from me. Ooops. So, my sudden financial panic is your opportunity to get a limited edition item. They will be available until some time on Thursday, March 20. At which point they will be gone forever. Each one will be hand inscribed with the number of the edition (“#1 of 5” or “#4 of 7,” whatever the case may be), with the numbering done via order in which orders are received. Also with my hand-enscribbled initials. (Because who knows, I might be famous someday.)
What I have:
1) BoMi: the complete set of diagrams created for the “Bomber Missile” articles for Aerospace Projects Review issues V2N3 and V2N4, a total of about 45 pages. Includes the MX 2276 from 1955, up through the SR-126 studies from 1957, Brass Bell, Convairs RoBo, Super Hustler, FISH; and Boeing Model 728 studies, among others. $45
2) BWB: The complete set of diagrams created for the V1N3 APR article on Blended Wing Body aircraft, 29 pages. Contains many jetliner concepts, along with such oddities as the Lockheed CL-1201,a giant nuclear powered VTOL assault transport concept. $40
3) Model 2050E X-20 Dyna Soar: the diagrams from the not-yet released issue V3N4 APR article. These are the diagrams in their current state; some may change before I’m done with them. And some will not appear in the article. Includes not only the X-20, but also several proposed launch vehicles (including, I’m reasonably proud to say, the first publicly available accurate and detailed diagrams of the X-20 atop the Titan IIIc), layouts of test and operational versions of the DS with transstage, several small space stations designed expressly for DS servicing, and several high-energy transstage concepts. Also includes really quite good diagrams of the ASSET test vehicle and the X-37B spaceplane. 24 pages, $35
4) Nuclear Pulse Propulsion Starships: diagrams from my hopefully-forthcoming book on nuclear pulse propulsion. I really had not planned on releasing any of the diagrams prior to publication of the book, but what the heck: here are 14 pages showing several versions of the Enzmann Starship, the Dyson Starship, the BIS Daedalus, the Martin/Bond Worldships and the US Naval Academy “Longshot.” $30
Several of the X-20 and NPP diagrams have been formatted specifically for this release, and will not be otherwise released. And of course if I get mashed by a Mack truck or flattened by a meteorite, these diagram sets will be the only versions of these diagrams ever released. So, you know, there’s that…
Please note that since these are physical objects, postage is sadly required. There’s only two options for that… US and non-US. You only need to buy *one* “postage,” no matter how many of the diagram sets you buy.
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Until December 18, the AIAA is selling 25 books for $25, and ten books for $10. Some good stuff here at some pretty substantial discount. You don’t have to be an AIAA member to get the discount.
NOTE: I have no relationship with the AIAA, and don’t make a nickel off these sales. So.. if you want to buy stuff and still feel like you are Supporting The Cause, feel free to navigate to Amazon.com through the “Search’ box that’s to the upper right of this page. i get a tiny fraction of the sales prices for items purchased via search & referral. I suggest buying stuff like laptops and computers and cars and such. So long as I’m getting a small percentage, it might as well be a small percentage of a large dollar value…
The Aircraft Designers: A Grumman Historical Perspective
Michael V. Ciminera
$39.95
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Meeting the Challenge: The Hexagon KH-9 Reconnaissance Satellite
Phil Pressel
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Space Shuttle Legacy: How We Did It and What We Learned
Roger D. Launius; John Krige; James I. Craig
$49.95
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Augustine’s Laws
Norman R. Augustine
$39.95
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100 years of Flight
Frank H. Winter and F. Robert van der Linden
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Have Blue and the F-117A: Evolution of the “Stealth Fighter”
David C. Aronstein and Albert C. Piccirillo
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Advanced Tactical Fighter to F-22 Raptor: Origins of the 21st Century Air Dominance Fighter
David C. Aronstein, Michael J. Hirschberg, and Albert C. Piccirillo
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Aerodynamic Principles of Flight Vehicles
Argyris Panaras
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Voyager Tales: Personal Views of the Grand Tour
David W. Swift
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Hans Von Ohain
Margaret Conner
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Road to Mach 10: Lessons Learned from the X-43A Flight Research Program
Curtis Peebles
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Eleven Seconds into the Unknown
Curtis Peebles
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Blazing the Trail: The Early History of Spacecraft and Rocketry
Mike Gruntman
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The Rocket Company
Patrick Stiennon and David Hoerr
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Rocketdyne: Powering Humans into Space
Vince Wheelcock
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Space Exploration and Astronaut Safety
Joseph N. Pelton
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Shades of Gray
L. Parker Temple III
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Unmanned Aviation: A Brief History of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Laurence R. Newcome
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Starting Something Big: The Commercial Emergence of GE Aircraft Engines
Robert V. Garvin
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The Power to Fly: An Engineer’s Life
Martin Ducheny and Brian Rowe
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Aerospace Engineering Education During the First Century of Flight
Barnes McCormick; Eric Jumper; Conrad Newberry
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The History of North American Small Gas Turbine Aircraft Engines
Richard Leyes II; William Fleming
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Methods to Extend Mechanical Component Life: Lessons Learned with Space Vehicle and Rocket Engine Components
Dieter Huzel
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The Engines of Pratt & Whitney: A Technical History
Jack Connors
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From Rainbow to Gusto
Paul A. Suhler
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Experiments in Aerodynamics
S. Langley
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Skycrane: Igor Sikorsky’s Last Vision
John A. McKenna
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Hired Minds
Bryan Gardner
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Terminal Chaos: Why U.S. Air Travel Is Broken and How to Fix It
George L. Donohue; Russell D. Shaver II
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Space: The Fragile Frontier
Mark Williamson
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Rocketeers and Gentlemen Engineers
Tom Crouch; Buzz Aldrin
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The Superpower Odyssey: A Russian Perspective on Space Cooperation
Yuri Karash
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Centennial of Powered Flight
Gerard Faeth
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When the Airlines Went to War
Robert Serling
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Advice to Rocket Scientists
Jim Longuski
$19.95
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The complete rework of APR from the original release a decade ago is going a lot slower than I’d planned. A lot of people have asked for the original versions of the as-yet-unreleased issues of APR to be made available. I’ve been hesitant to do so, but… it’s just taking too long. So, I’ve taken the original Word files for the six issues of Volume 4 and the six issues of Volume 5, and made two PDF files from them. I’m making them temporarily available as two bulk sets. When the issues are re-released, these full-volume sets will be withdrawn. So, Volume 5 might remain available till the sun explodes, I dunno…
If you’re dying to get hold of the old-school APRs, here’s your chance. Remember, these are the *original* files from around 2002-2004, without any updates, edits or other changes. Errors, crappy formatting and all. A bunch of the individual old articles remain available as well.
APR Original Run Volume 4 downloadable PDF: $30
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APR Original Run Volume 5 downloadable PDF: $30
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Here are the contents:
Volume 4:
The X-15 Research Airplane Competition: The Bell Aircraft Proposal by Dennis R. Jenkins
First in a series of articles describing the competitors for the X-15
Lockheed Model L-153 Part 2 by Bill Slayton
Immediately post-war M-wing jet fighter designs
Cobras Of The Field by Scott Lowther
Modified helicopters for ag duty
Lockheed Model L-153 Part 3 by Bill Slayton
Immediately post-war swept-wing jet fighter designs
The X-15 Research Airplane Competition: The Douglas Aircraft Proposal by Dennis R. Jenkins
The Douglas competitor for the X-15
The Martin “Spacemaster” by Scott Lowther
An unconventional design competitor for the Shuttle
Radial Engine P-51 Mustang by Scott Lowther
A little-known modification to the supreme WWII fighter
The X-15 Research Airplane Competition: The Republic Aviation Proposal by Dennis R. Jenkins
The Republic competitor for the X-15
Boeing Super Clippers, then and Now by Scott Lowther
Truly grand aircraft
The X-15 Research Airplane Competition: The North American Proposal by Dennis R. Jenkins
The winning competitor for the X-15
The HFB 530 Ranger by Mike Hirschberg A German VTOL strike/recon design
Lockheed Model L-153 Part 4 by Bill Slayton
Early Post-war variable geometry fighters
Sonic Cruiser Update by Scott Lowther
New drawings of a new aircraft
LARA Craft: COIN Raiders by Scott Lowther
A long way to go for a bad pun for some tough aircraft
English MUSTARD by Scott Lowther
An early 1960’s British fully reusable Space Shuttle
The NACA’s First Jet by Scott Lowther
The last gasp for ducted fans prior to the turbojet
Addendum to Issue V4N5
Ooops.
The Hopeless Diamond by Scott Lowther
The first cut of the stealth fighter
Sea Dragon by Scott Lowther
A giant, dirt-cheap launch vehicle
North American NA-116 by Scott Lowther
A long-range bomber
Multibody Designs From Lockheed by Scott Lowther
Unconventional yet fuel efficient designs
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Volume 5:
Editor’s Gratuitous Additions: Republic XF-103
A little bit of extra info.
Republic XF-103 by Dennis R. Jenkins
About as sleek as an aircraft can get.
Boeing’s Advanced Multipurpose Large Launch Vehicle by Scott Lowther
Perhaps the most powerful space launcher ever seriously conceived.
McDonnell Douglas GRM-29A by Scott Lowther
Just about the coolest spaceplane ever… but would it have worked???
The Rockwell XFV-12A V/STOL Prototype by Dana E. Lubich
It came close…
XFV-12A Followons by Scott Lowther
The end of the program wasn’t the end of the concept
Hawker Siddeley HS 141 by Scott Lowther
VTOL jetliner concept
Bell/Boeing Armed XV-15 by Scott Lowther
A tilt rotor with a mission
Lockheed Sea Sitter by Scott Lowther
A seaplane to conquer the oceans
Early Atlas Missile Designs by Scott Lowther
Evolution of America’s first ICBM
Boeing’s Air-Launched Micro-Fighters by Scott Lowther
The fighter needed for a flying aircraft carrier
Chrysler SERV by Scott Lowther
An SSTO Space Shuttle design
Soviet Seaplane Jet Bombers by Thomas Mueller and Jens Baganz
A counterpoint to American efforts
4,000 Ton Orion by Scott Lowther
Recently declassified data on a large nuclear pulse propulsion craft
Mart Model 262 by Scott Lowther
A mysteriously delayed article on VTOL fighters…
NASA Langley High Speed Civil Transport by Scott Lowther
Mach 3 and Mach 4 transports from the late 1980’s
Convair/Canadair Tilt-Wing Close Support Aircraft by Scott Lowther
VTOL gunship
Spacejet by Scott Lowther
Spaceplanes with dropable jet engines
Handley Page All-Wing Airbus by Scott Lowther
A British flying-wing transport from the 1960’s
Convair NX-2 Nuclear Powered Bomber by Scott Lowther
A well known but – until now – poorly documented nuclear powered aircraft project
Technology Needs for High Speed Rotorcraft Part 1 Sikorsky and Bell by Scott Lowther
Tiltrotos, tiltwings, fan-in-body designs
Lockheed-Martin ICE by Scott Lowther
An experimental tailless stealth fighter design
Raumwaffe, 1946
Boeing WS-110A
X-Wings
Dash-On-Warning
Until Friday, I’m running a sale on US Bomber Projects. There are currently 4 issues available for $4 each; for the duration of the sale, get all four for only $12.
Sale has ended.
Still going on, 1/3 or so off Aerospace Projects Review. Only a few more days.
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Volume 1: Normally $44.50 for all six issues; on sale now for $30.00
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Volume 2: Normally $52.50 for all six issues; on sale now for $35.00
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Volume 3 (so far… including N2&N3 Addenda): Normally $36.50 for all issues; on sale now for $24.00
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Sale has ended.
A sale on Aerospace Projects Review:
Volume 1: Normally $44.50 for all six issues; on sale now for $30.00
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Volume 2: Normally $52.50 for all six issues; on sale now for $35.00
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Volume 3 (so far… including N2&N3 Addenda): Normally $36.50 for all issues; on sale now for $24.00
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Zazzle is currently running a 40% off sale on posters. Seems to be a “today only” sort of thing. So, hurry up and buy a whole lot of my panorama photos while they’re cheap!
http://www.zazzle.com/scottlowtherphotos
A short-term sale… just a few hours. So act fast! All downloadable drawings and documents and APRs, as well as Reichdream items. Sale excludes matter-mail items and APR subscriptions. Minimum order: $25.
There has *got* to be a way to do this with Paypal in a way that doesn’t seem lame, but I don’t know what it is. So, here’s what I’ve come up with: order the “coupon” below (a nominal fifty cents), and at least $25 more items… and I will refund you 40% of the total. More steps than would seem necessary, but I think it should be workable.
Remember to order the “coupon” and the items all in one order. Otherwise… it won’t work. No “coupon,” no savings…
Sale has ended.
A customer contracted me to build him a 1/24 scale X-20 Dyna Soar display model. Photos below of preliminary castings, produced in the last few days using a silicone mold that turned out to be too thin. There are flaws in the too-thin mold that came through on the cast, but which wouldn’t exist on a second mold which I plan to make. And obviously the ginormous hole in the tail end wouldn’t exist on a finalized model.
The entry shield will be held on with neodymium magnets, and there’ll be a few more details along with some printed goodies (at least one of which should be *really* impressive) as well as a new stand. There will be specially printed markings, and a choice of finishes… ultra-glossy nitrocellulose lacquer, or satin nitrocellulose lacquer.
The new mold will require that I buy $500 worth of silicone. Anyone interested in an X-20 of their very own? There won’t be too many of these made. If interested, send me an email: 
Again, the model shown here is not a final version, just something of a “prototype.” The actual models will look substantially better.