CAD updates

I took the responses I got and fed ’em through Excel. Basically, I just listed everyone’s chosen topics in order and weighted them on a simple scale ( #1 gets a weight of “1,” #2 gets 0.9, #3 gets 0.8, etc) and then added everything up. The results:
b70           8.5
x15           7.1
a12           5.6
f23            5.4
icarus       4.6
2707         4.6
pluto         4.5
orion         4
l2000       3.3
hustler     3.6
bwb          3.2
sortie        3
X20          3
nx2           2.9
a11            2.7
serj           1.6
mistress   0.8

Turns out that the B-70 and X-15A-3 drawings are at the top of the list, while Pluto is in the middle, BWB is near the bottom and SeaMistress is *at* the bottom. Which is kind of a shame, since Pluto, BWB and SeaMistress are the drawings closest to being ready.

Day before yesterday I had a whole bunch of prints run off of a number of the drawing sets… Pluto, A-11/A-12, Sortie, SeaMistress. These were all full-D-size drawings, and are now scribbled on in red pen. The check prints showed a number of things that needed improving…some of the detail lines were set to too faint of a color (looks fine on screen, looks not-so-good on paper), for instance. Still, on the whole my impression is that most of them are really quite impressive.

And now that the stats are in hand showing that a full 8+ people on the planet are interested in the B-70 drawings, that’s what’s now in works. It’ll take a while, though… in order to get the B-70 drawing set complete, the X-15A-3 and the Dyna Soar drawings will also need to be completed.