SR-71 Blackbird Original Vertical Tail Rudder
Seems a bit steep to me.
Jun 262012
Mar 122012
Found this on eBay:
ARTICLE 17KS – *MIR* SPACE STATION BASE MODULE TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION ALBUM
It’s offered to your attention about A3 format album named “Article 17KS. Technical description. Part 2. General composition.”, with the technical data, schemes and drawings of the Soviet space station MIR, known as “article 17KS” – the special limited issue for its designers, manufacturers and cosmonauts. This particular album is taken from MIR army testers. It was stored in a “military unit” which number is striked out because of the top secrecy regime for all Soviet space industry, including proving grounds and launch pads.
And it’s cheap, too! (For certain definitions of “cheap”)
Feb 122012
I was keeping an eye on this eBay auction:
Vintage 1960’s Saturn Apollo Manned Orbital Research Laboratory Proposal No Rese
“Saturn/Apollo and Manned orbital Research Laboratory Congressional record Presentation”
Up until right near the end it was $15. Sadly, at the end it shot to over $100, well outside of my range. I’d still like to get a peek at it, though…
Dec 222011
Some more stuff that will either get sold to all y’all, or put on eBay. If you want one or more of these, please say so in the comments. The books will ship in the US via USPS Media Mail. Other shipping options (including foreign) available.
1) “Science Fiction of the 30’s” by Damon Knight. Hardback with dust jacket: $6 plus postage.
2) “Stranger in a Strange Land” by Heinlein. Hardback with dust jacket… FIRST EDITION, 1961. The dust jacket has some tears, but the book itself is in pretty good condition. $80.00plus postage.
3) Lot of six “New Tom Swift Jr. Adventures” books: “Tom Swift and the Asteroid Pirates,” “Tom Swift and His Repelatrom Skyway,” “Tom Swift and the Visitor from Planet X,” “Tom Swift and His Megascope Space Prober,” “Tom Swift and His Giant Robot” and “Tom Swift and His Polar-Ray Dynasphere.” All are first edition hardbacks in pretty good shape. $35 for the lot plus postage.
4) Lot of two John Varley first editions: “Millenium” and “The Ophiuchi Hotline.” Both are hardbacks with their dustjackets; “Hotline” has some edge wear on the dust jacket; “Millenium” is in really good shape. $9 for the pair plus postage.
Dec 102011
Some more stuff that will either get sold to all y’all, or put on eBay. If you want one or more of these, please say so in the comments. The books will ship in the US via USPS Media Mail for $3 each, or $5 for 2 or more. Other shipping options (including foreign) available.
1) First edition hardback of Robert Heinlein’s “Rocketship Galileo.” Illustrated, in fairly good condition, but no dust jacket. $25 + postage. Purchased.
2) First edition of Hank Searls’ novel “The Pilgrim Project.” In good shape with dust jacket. Based on a Bell Aerospace concept for a one-way mission to the moon, and served as the basis for the movie “Countdown.” $5 + postage.Purchased.
3) First edition of “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” by Steven Spielberg. In good shape with dust jacket. $5 + postage
4) “German Secret Weapons Blueprint for Mars” by Brian Ford. One of the first books that helped spur off the craze for “Luftwaffe 1946” and similar popular interest in advanced and wacky WWII German weapons. $4 + postage
5) “Rocket Fighter” by William Green. Paperback about the development of the Messerschmit Me 163. $4 + postage.
6) Rocket dirt. Sure, why not. This is a 2 ounce glass vial filled with some of the dirt that fell from the sky following the ATK test of a five-segment modified Shuttle solid rocket booster for the now-cancelled Ares rockets, back in August of 2010. I collected a handful of the stuff on the day it fell, and another handful on the next day. They were put in separate ziplock bags. The second-day-collected dirt was and is substantially lighter in color than the first-day-collected dirt, which I’m guessing is due to outgassing or evaporation of… something. In any event, it’s kinda strange stuff, and it’s not like they’re making more of it… $10 plus postage.
Dec 042011
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
Sep 222011
This (68 megabyte ZIP folder of jpg images) package contains diagrams to be used in the construction of accurate display models of the B-47. Includes:
1) Boeing drawing 23-2305, “Boeing B-47E Model Drawings 1/100 Scale,” 9000X5432 pixels, dated 1956
2) Boeing drawing 14-5068, “Boeing XB-47 Stratojet Model Drawing,” 13408X8412 pixels, dated 1947
Also included are halfsize and quartersize version for easier viewing and printing.
Air Drawing 57 can be downloaded for $$4.50.
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