AIAA is holding a book sale

 aircraft, blather, books, history, Hmm..., news, RAINBOW to GUSTO, rockets, sales & specials, spacecraft  2 Responses »
Dec 062013
 

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
NOW $25!

Meeting the Challenge: The Hexagon KH-9 Reconnaissance Satellite
Phil Pressel
$39.95
NOW $25!

Space Shuttle Legacy: How We Did It and What We Learned
Roger D. Launius; John Krige; James I. Craig
$49.95
NOW $25!

Augustine’s Laws
Norman R. Augustine
$39.95
NOW $25!

100 years of Flight
Frank H. Winter and F. Robert van der Linden
$69.95
NOW $25!

Have Blue and the F-117A: Evolution of the “Stealth Fighter”
David C. Aronstein and Albert C. Piccirillo
$59.95
NOW $25!

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
$49.95
NOW $25!

Aerodynamic Principles of Flight Vehicles
Argyris Panaras
$49.95
NOW $25!

Voyager Tales: Personal Views of the Grand Tour
David W. Swift
$74.95
NOW $25!

Hans Von Ohain
Margaret Conner
$54.95
NOW $25!

Road to Mach 10: Lessons Learned from the X-43A Flight Research Program
Curtis Peebles
$39.95
NOW $25!

Eleven Seconds into the Unknown
Curtis Peebles
$39.95
NOW $25!

Blazing the Trail: The Early History of Spacecraft and Rocketry
Mike Gruntman
$39.95
NOW $25!

The Rocket Company
Patrick Stiennon and David Hoerr
$34.95
NOW $25!

Rocketdyne: Powering Humans into Space
Vince Wheelcock
$39.95
NOW $25!

Space Exploration and Astronaut Safety
Joseph N. Pelton
$49.95
NOW $25!

Shades of Gray
L. Parker Temple III
$49.95
NOW $25!

Unmanned Aviation: A Brief History of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Laurence R. Newcome
$44.95
NOW $25!

Starting Something Big: The Commercial Emergence of GE Aircraft Engines
Robert V. Garvin
$39.95
NOW $25!

The Power to Fly: An Engineer’s Life
Martin Ducheny and Brian Rowe
$39.95
NOW $25!

Aerospace Engineering Education During the First Century of Flight
Barnes McCormick; Eric Jumper; Conrad Newberry
$89.95
NOW $25!

The History of North American Small Gas Turbine Aircraft Engines
Richard Leyes II; William Fleming
$49.95
NOW $25!

Methods to Extend Mechanical Component Life: Lessons Learned with Space Vehicle and Rocket Engine Components
Dieter Huzel
$44.95
NOW $25!

The Engines of Pratt & Whitney: A Technical History
Jack Connors
$49.95
NOW $25!

From Rainbow to Gusto
Paul A. Suhler
$39.95
NOW $25!

Experiments in Aerodynamics
S. Langley
$29.95
NOW $10!

Skycrane: Igor Sikorsky’s Last Vision
John A. McKenna
$39.95
NOW $10!

Hired Minds
Bryan Gardner
$19.95
NOW $10!

Terminal Chaos: Why U.S. Air Travel Is Broken and How to Fix It
George L. Donohue; Russell D. Shaver II
$29.95
NOW $10!

Space: The Fragile Frontier
Mark Williamson
$39.95
NOW $10!

Rocketeers and Gentlemen Engineers
Tom Crouch; Buzz Aldrin
$39.95
NOW $10!

The Superpower Odyssey: A Russian Perspective on Space Cooperation
Yuri Karash
$49.95
NOW $10!

Centennial of Powered Flight
Gerard Faeth
$24.95
NOW $10!

When the Airlines Went to War
Robert Serling
$24.95
NOW $10!

Advice to Rocket Scientists
Jim Longuski
$19.95
NOW $10!

 Posted by at 4:30 pm

Diagrams on eBay

 aircraft, APR, awesomeness, books, drawings, eBay, history, new products, projects, RAINBOW to GUSTO  No Responses »
Oct 062013
 

I’ve put a few sets of 11X17 diagrams on eBay:

Northrop F-23 predecessor and derivatives diagram booklet

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Lockheed Archangel Diagram booklet (SR-71 predecessor designs)

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McDonnell-Douglas/General Dynamics A-12 Avenger II Diagram Booklet

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I don’t really know if these’ll do at all well on eBay, but what the heck. I’m hoping they might serve as a bit of advertising, though. The Archangel set is very likely a one-off, a result of the printer actually spitting out two copies rather than one.

For those of you who were generous a good long while ago and have been wondering “what the hell?!?!” the technology and techniques I’ve been developing and requiring recently will prove relevant.

 Posted by at 6:17 pm

“From RAINBOW to GUSTO:” D-33 configuration

 aircraft, books, drawings, history, projects, RAINBOW to GUSTO  2 Responses »
Aug 172011
 

The actual “Archangels” are done. However, there were a few more drawings…

Twenty-fourth in the series of reconstructed drawings from Paul Suhler’s book “From RAINBOW to GUSTO.” This is the Lockheed D-33 design as drawn in mid 1966. This particular drawing has a Source Grade of four:

“RAINBOW to GUSTO” is available from Amazon:

To download the high-rez version of the D-33 drawing, simply click THIS LINK. You will be prompted for a username and a password. For the D-33 drawing, use these:

Username: the FIRST word in the body of the text on page 243

Password: the LAST word in the body of the text on page 243

(Remember: Case Sensitive!)

ALSO NOTE: if all you get is a “red X,” that means the image is too large for your browser to display (I’ve not had a problem with Firefox, but have had with IE). In that event, simply hit the Back button to this page, and right click on the link above and save the image directly to your computer and view from there.

Up next: Arrow configuration

 Posted by at 5:52 pm

“From RAINBOW to GUSTO:” A-11 configuration

 aircraft, books, drawings, history, projects, RAINBOW to GUSTO  6 Responses »
Aug 142011
 

Twenty-third in the series of reconstructed drawings from Paul Suhler’s book “From RAINBOW to GUSTO.” This is the Lockheed A-11 design as drawn by Ed Baldwin in March 1959. This particular drawing has a Source Grade of four:

“RAINBOW to GUSTO” is available from Amazon:

To download the high-rez version of the A-11 drawing, simply click THIS LINK. You will be prompted for a username and a password. For the A-11 drawing, use these:

Username: the FIRST word in the body of the text on page 157

Password: the LAST word in the body of the text on page 157

(Remember: Case Sensitive!)

ALSO NOTE: if all you get is a “red X,” that means the image is too large for your browser to display (I’ve not had a problem with Firefox, but have had with IE). In that event, simply hit the Back button to this page, and right click on the link above and save the image directly to your computer and view from there.

Up next: D-33 configuration

 Posted by at 12:13 pm

“From RAINBOW to GUSTO:” A-12 configuration

 aircraft, books, drawings, history, projects, RAINBOW to GUSTO  No Responses »
Aug 122011
 

NOTE: Slightly out of sequence.

Twenty-second in the series of reconstructed drawings from Paul Suhler’s book “From RAINBOW to GUSTO.” This is the Lockheed A-12 design as drawn by Dick Fuller in mid 1959. This particular drawing has a Source Grade of four:

“RAINBOW to GUSTO” is available from Amazon:

To download the high-rez version of the A-12 drawing, simply click THIS LINK. You will be prompted for a username and a password. For the A-12 drawing, use these:

Username: the FIRST word in the body of the text on page 173

Password: the LAST word in the body of the text on page 173

(Remember: Case Sensitive!)

ALSO NOTE: if all you get is a “red X,” that means the image is too large for your browser to display (I’ve not had a problem with Firefox, but have had with IE). In that event, simply hit the Back button to this page, and right click on the link above and save the image directly to your computer and view from there.

Up next: A-11 configuration

 Posted by at 9:06 pm

“From RAINBOW to GUSTO:” A-10 configuration

 aircraft, books, drawings, history, projects, RAINBOW to GUSTO  1 Response »
Aug 012011
 

Twenty-first in the series of reconstructed drawings from Paul Suhler’s book “From RAINBOW to GUSTO.” This is the Lockheed A-10 design as drawn by Ed Baldwin in January 1959. This particular drawing has a Source Grade of four:

“RAINBOW to GUSTO” is available from Amazon:

To download the high-rez version of the A-10 drawing, simply click THIS LINK. You will be prompted for a username and a password. For the A-10 drawing, use these:

Username: the FIRST word in the body of the text on page 156

Password: the LAST word in the body of the text on page 156

(Remember: Case Sensitive!)

ALSO NOTE: if all you get is a “red X,” that means the image is too large for your browser to display (I’ve not had a problem with Firefox, but have had with IE). In that event, simply hit the Back button to this page, and right click on the link above and save the image directly to your computer and view from there.

Up next: A-11 configuration

 Posted by at 11:25 am

“From RAINBOW to GUSTO:” A-7-3 configuration

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Jul 302011
 

Twentieth in the series of reconstructed drawings from Paul Suhler’s book “From RAINBOW to GUSTO.” This is the Lockheed A-7-2 design as drawn by Ed Baldwin in January 1959. This particular drawing has a Source Grade of four:

“RAINBOW to GUSTO” is available from Amazon:

To download the high-rez version of the A-7-3 drawing, simply click THIS LINK. You will be prompted for a username and a password. For the A-7-3 drawing, use these:

Username: the FIRST word in the body of the text on page 141

Password: the LAST word in the body of the text on page 141

(Remember: Case Sensitive!)

ALSO NOTE: if all you get is a “red X,” that means the image is too large for your browser to display (I’ve not had a problem with Firefox, but have had with IE). In that event, simply hit the Back button to this page, and right click on the link above and save the image directly to your computer and view from there.

Up next: A-10 configuration

 Posted by at 1:22 am

“From RAINBOW to GUSTO:” A-7-2 configuration

 aircraft, books, drawings, history, projects, RAINBOW to GUSTO  1 Response »
Jul 282011
 

Nineteenth in the series of reconstructed drawings from Paul Suhler’s book “From RAINBOW to GUSTO.” This is the Lockheed A-7-2 design as drawn by Ed Baldwin in January 1959. This particular drawing has a Source Grade of four:

“RAINBOW to GUSTO” is available from Amazon:

To download the high-rez version of the A-7-2 drawing, simply click THIS LINK. You will be prompted for a username and a password. For the A-7-2 drawing, use these:

Username: the FIRST word in the body of the text on page 140

Password: the LAST word in the body of the text on page 140

(Remember: Case Sensitive!)

ALSO NOTE: if all you get is a “red X,” that means the image is too large for your browser to display (I’ve not had a problem with Firefox, but have had with IE). In that event, simply hit the Back button to this page, and right click on the link above and save the image directly to your computer and view from there.

Up next: A-7-3 configuration

 Posted by at 8:46 pm

“From RAINBOW to GUSTO:” A-6-9 configuration

 aircraft, books, drawings, history, projects, RAINBOW to GUSTO  2 Responses »
Jul 202011
 

Eighteenth in the series of reconstructed drawings from Paul Suhler’s book “From RAINBOW to GUSTO.” This is the Lockheed A-6-9 design as drawn by Dan Zuck in January 1959. This particular drawing has a Source Grade of four:

“RAINBOW to GUSTO” is available from Amazon:

To download the high-rez version of the A-6-9 drawing, simply click THIS LINK. You will be prompted for a username and a password. For the A-6-9 drawing, use these:

Username: the FIRST word in the body of the text on page 136

Password: the LAST word in the body of the text on page 136

(Remember: Case Sensitive!)

ALSO NOTE: if all you get is a “red X,” that means the image is too large for your browser to display (I’ve not had a problem with Firefox, but have had with IE). In that event, simply hit the Back button to this page, and right click on the link above and save the image directly to your computer and view from there.

Up next: A-7-2 configuration

 Posted by at 6:07 pm

“From RAINBOW to GUSTO:” A-6-6 configuration

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Jul 182011
 

Seventeenth in the series of reconstructed drawings from Paul Suhler’s book “From RAINBOW to GUSTO.” This is the Lockheed A-6-6 design as drawn by Dan Zuck in January 1959. This particular drawing has a Source Grade of four:

“RAINBOW to GUSTO” is available from Amazon:

To download the high-rez version of the A-6-6 drawing, simply click THIS LINK. You will be prompted for a username and a password. For the A-6-6 drawing, use these:

Username: the FIRST word in the body of the text on page 135

Password: the LAST word in the body of the text on page 132

(Remember: Case Sensitive!)

ALSO NOTE: if all you get is a “red X,” that means the image is too large for your browser to display (I’ve not ahd a problem with Firefox, but have had with IE). In that event, simply hit the Back button to this page, and right click on the link above and save the image directly to your computer and view from there.

Up next: A-6-9 configuration

 Posted by at 10:48 pm
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