Until I get the website updated to incorporate four new drawings sets, air drawings 58 through 61, I’m putting all four on sale in a bundle for $20. When they are officially released, they will run $26 (three for $7, one for $5).
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Sale has ended.
For those interested, work on the “Nuclear Pulse Propulsion” book continues. Below is yet another example of the diagramming that will be in it. This shows an as-yet incomplete drawing of the British Interplanetary Society’s “Daedalus” starship, second stage, in scale with a Saturn V. Note that this vehicle is not even remotely small, even though it was the second of two stages, carried no crew, and did not carry fuel to even begin to attempt to stop at the target star. Daedalus would be essentially the interstellar version of Voyager… the minimum craft for the job, which is to just blow right on by and take some snapshots.
Nuclear Pulse Propulsion will go into Daedalus is some depth, and will have a number of illustrations of it.
FYI: The primary internet computer is in the shop to get “Win 7 Antispyware” removed. They seemed to have some knowledge of it, and claim that removal will not present a problem and that I should get the computer back tomorrow. Which will be great; even though I now have things set up and backed up in such a way that I can get online and do what I need to do, and data loss would be minimal… it’s still a pain in the ass to re-load all the lost programs. Bah.
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
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
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
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
In late 2009 and early 2010, one of my little projects was re-drawing many of the layout drawings contained in Paul Suhler’s excellent “From RAINBOW to GUSTO,” a history of the development of the SR-71. The book has many diagrams of previously unseen designs, but due to printing restrictions, the diagrams were a lot smaller than I would have liked. I got in touch with the author, and gained permission to redraw and post a number of them. The project was well underway when disaster struck. My computer crashed and took out a whole lot of data with it… including all the CAD drawings. It took a while to get back up and running, and when I finally did, the loss of all that data and hard work was disheartening, and I let the project slip away.
Recently I had cause to re-visit the effort. Much to my amazement I found buried in a mis-labeled file an early backup of the project… it was incomplete, lacking three of the most recent CAD drawings, but enough of it was there to allow me to pick it up again. This morning (around 2AM) I finished the last of them. Now that they are all complete (and backed up!), I will start posting them again, starting where I left off. The format of the diagrams will be a little bit different, but the basic presentation process will be the same. I’ll post a low-rez image, and a link to a password-protected high-resolution version. In order to access the high-rez version, you’ll need to have a copy of “RAINBOW To GUSTO,” as the passwords will be words on specific pages of the book. It seemed to work well enough a year and a half ago…
Anyway, here is the complete “RAINBOW to GUSTO” drawing collection to whet your appetite. Starting Real Soon Now I’ll begin posting the individual high-rez drawings. This collection drawing shows them all to scale (1/550 scale when printed out D-size… it has been reduced to 1/4 of the original image size, BTW).
Next up: the A-6-5. So, make sure to have your copies of “RAINBOW” handy…
Through the weekend, I’m running a sale on the Miranda/Mercado “Reichdreams Dossier” series. Buy in groups of seven, and save 33%!
RD’s 1 through 7 would be $68.00 to download individually. Buy them together for only $45.33!
RD’s 8 through 14 would be $102.50 to download individually. Buy them together for only $68.33!
RD’s 15 through 21 would be $105.50 to download individually. Buy them together for only $70.33!
Sale has ended.
Now available: Justo Miranda & Paula Mercado present Reichdreams Dossier No. 21: “FW190 Extreme.” This issue includes advanced versions of the WWII German Focke-Wulf FW190 fighter. Includes engine studies (piston, turbojet and ramjet), armament studies (guns, cannon, upward-firing weapons, a range of guided and unguided air-to-surface and air-to-air missiles, glide bombs, cruise missiles), alternate wing planforms, ejector seats, avionics and even parasite fighters!
This issue contains more than 80 pages of technical diagrams, many in 1/72 or 1/48 scale. Yours to download for only $20! You can also buy it in printed form through MagCloud. Check out the MagCloud page for a higher-resolution “preview” of the issue and to buy a high-qaulity printed and bound edition for $30.60.
Be sure to check out the other issues in the Reichdreams Dossiers series.
Ever so slightly Not Safe For Work. So, crank up the volume to 11, and let your neighbors ten cubes over listen in.
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