New Space Drawing: part one of a set of diagrams showing the Dyna Soar spaceplane and it’s Titan II suborbital booster.
You get:
1: Martin Drawing 388-0400000: An inboard profile & section view of the Titan II booster with Dyna Soar. A grayscale scan of an “artistic” presentation of the diagram, airbrushed. 11,525 X 2268 pixels.
2: Martin Drawing 388-0400000: An inboard profile & section view of the Titan II booster with Dyna Soar. A grayscale scan of the basic engineering line diagram. 17,275 X 3300 pixels.
3: Martin Model 388-1: An inboard profile & section view of the Titan II booster with Dyna Soar. A black-and-white scan of the basic engineering line diagram. 17,067 X 3358 pixels.
4: Booster – Complete, Martin drawing 388-1000000. A grayscale scan of a complete overview of the Dyna Soar/Titan II booster air vehicle. 4750 x 2756 pixels.
5: Structural Configuration, Martin drawing 388-1000000. A black & white scan of the internal structure of the Dyna Soar/Titan II booster air vehicle. 20,154 x 3367 pixels.
All drawings come in JPG format and GIF format, as well as “halfsize” and “quartersize” versions for easier viewing & printing.
Space Drawing 24 is a 41 megabyte ZIP file, and is available for $5.50.
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2 Responses to “Space Drawing 24: Dyna Soar/Titan II part 1”
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On a Titan II, Dyna-Soar couldn’t reach orbit, so would be limited to the original atmospheric skip-glide mission profile for reconnaissance or bombing.
Given that this shows the finished Boeing design, has anyone figured out what its max range would be at their final estimated weight for the aircraft?
This brings up a good question; the YouTube videos of planned test missions for it show it returning over the west coast and landing at either Vandenberg or Edwards.
If it was to be used as a bomber to attack the USSR like in the original plan, shooting it over the North Pole made a lot more sense from a range point of view, as then you wouldn’t need it to go anywhere near all the way around the world to recover it, as that could be done in Italy or Turkey (or even Iran at the time).
But where to launch from? If it gets launched from Vandenberg over the North pole it’s flying an unnecessarily long course, and if you put it further north (say Alaska or Canada) then you have to build a whole new launch infrastructure for it, and deal with harsh weather.
Fly it south over the other pole from Vandenberg to sneak into the USSR from the south, and by the time you are over the target most of your energy is gone, and you are a lot easier target for a ABM.
One of the YouTube videos does show a large model of it being raised to the surface from a Titan I silo, so maybe that’s what they had in mind. I imagine it could be launched from the existing Titan II silos, but that will bring stage one down in the US, and you don’t want those things with their leftover hydrazine coming out of the sky on practice missions.
In fact, practice missions that actually overflew the Soviet Union would be a good way to start WW III.
Any other flight profile wouldn’t be a very accurate simulation for the pilots of what they were going to do if it was actually used to attack someone.
Pat