Feb 012009
I put the last bit of text into the Orion article tonight, adjusted the last images. I need to add a few things to the References section at the end, and add Figure #s, but other than that… it appears that the Orion article is done. And beyond that, all that’s left to do is a half page or so on the “North American Aviation atomic rockets and ramjets from ’47” article, and I think that’ll be that. Currently looking at 152 pages in length, twice what I was shooting for. And this was after yanking a fair amount out. Hopefully V2N3 will go quicker.
Here’s a screenshot of one of the 11X17 pages featuring all of the Orions from this article.
7 Responses to “Wow… I think I’m almost done!”
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What do you do with the info you yank out of the magazine? Just curious.
It’s going in V2N3. I had originally put a lot of little “extras” in V2N2 to make up for it being so late, but once the sheer size of the issue became apparent, the extras largely got moved to the *next* issue.
Scott – a subject suggestion for one of your future issues. Over at the Secret Projects website… there’s been some discussion about “Flaming Pumpkin Seeds” vehicles. Link:
http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,814.0.html
Not sure if you’ve covered this in your earlier issues of APR. It’s an interesting concept.
> “Flaming Pumpkin Seeds”
Sadly, just about the only sources for information on this type of vehicle are a few Av Week articles, and a whole bunch of UFO-fans. I’ve not seen much of anything else.
The tension is building over her Scott…please keep your computer files safe! 😉
> please keep your computer files safe!
As of a few minutes ago, they’ve been backed up on external hard drive and DVD.
Note on the “Flaming-Pumpkin Seeds” thread:
I will have to look them up at home but I manged to find two papers on the web at one point; a NASA study on external burning as means of drag reduction, and an ESA paper on a hypersonic-skip-glide rocket plane concept that used external (underside) burning of fuel to reduce velocity loss and add impulse during the atmospheric interface periods. This allowed the assisted (sled launch assist) to do a “once-around” the Earth skip-glide at a “real” speed of a little over Mach-10 landing at the place it was launched.
Randy