*THIS* is what happens when I decide to write an article on something that I’ve got a lot of info on (“Titan III Derived Launch Vehicles”), but it’s info that I’ve collected over a span of *decades* without properly cataloging…
Something I have vague recollection of is an “unrolled” diagram of the surface of either the Titan II or Titan III (probably the 2), just a rectangle with all the surface features laid out on it. But now that I go looking for it, not only can I not find it, not only do I not remember where or what it was, now I’m not entirely sure it ever existed. Maybe I dreamed it up. Argh.
Does this sound familiar to anyone?
I am also looking for high-rez photos of the Titan IIIC. The boosters I’ve got lots of info on, but the core vehicle less so. If anyone can help out on detailing the core of a Titan IIIC, I’d be most appreciative.
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I found only Titan II-Gemini
http://www.ninfinger.org/models/vault/titan/index.html
i remember that Charles P. Vick made some drawings of “unrolled” diagram of Titan and others booster
High-rez photo try here
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Titan_(Rocket)?uselang=de
Ah, Charles P. Vick.
The guy who could do very detailed drawings of Soviet rockets without really knowing what they actually looked like.
I did a scratch-built Proton rocket model once, decades back, based on his drawings, with its “six strap-on boosters” and two central core engines.
That’s some money and time I’ll never see again.
“But now that I go looking for it, not only can I not find it”
You need a Mac and iDocument or DevonThink.
How would having a Mac help me find a piece of paper form 15 years ago?
I remember the same thing, Scott. The only thing of that sort I can find — in my collection — is a paper model of the Titan II. The only thing similar, so far in my possession, is a roll pattern image for the Saturn V, but it’s not a “rolled-out” thing.
I’ve found something that will partially serve my needs:
http://www.ninfinger.org/models/titan_II/tii_dwgs/tii_dwgs.html
The “exterior.pdf” file is a CAD drawing of an “unrolled” Titan II, which I converted back into a DWG file. It is *not* the drawing I remember, but it’ll do. But I’m still fuzzy on how applicable this is to the Titan III. The few photos I have of the Titan III core seem to show it being much smoother than the Titan II.
The 1/144th scale Titan II included in the old Monogram “US/USSR Missile Balance” kit is very well done, and mine has a scratchbuilt Gemini spacecraft atop it at the moment, as well as a second stage engine and first stage tank dome.
Charles Vick did his best. There was a lot of confusion early on. I think people confused the Nedelin disaster with the N-1 failures and even the loss of Polyus and confabulated it all as a mythical G-1 superbooster drawn in one book as much larger than Saturn V.