Ryan COIN

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Sep 172025
 

Ryan art of a Counter Insurgency (COIN) concept from the 1960s. This aircraft is somewhat similar to the OV-10 Bronco but with the important distinction of having a rotor for VTOL capability. For forward flight the 3-bladed rotor would largely stow within a large saucer-shaped rotor hub to decrease drag. Unfortunately, this is all I have on this concept; if anyone has anything further, I’d love to see it.

The high-rez (600 dpi) scan of the artwork has been made available as an “extra” to APR Monthly Historical Documents Program subscribers/Patrons above the $10 level. If you’d like to get in on such things, or would simply like to help me procure and save such rare aerospace ephemera, consider subscribing. This can be done either through Patreon or Paypal, as described here:

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 Posted by at 3:19 pm

July 2025 APR Rewards

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Aug 012025
 

Rewards for July, 2025 have been released. These include:

Document: “GETOL Technical Merits & Status,” General Dynamics/Convair, AD-VTOL-41, February, 1963. Report on Ground Effect Take off and Landing studies.

Document: “Flying Cranes,” Sikorsky, 1959. Brochure describing and illustrating heavy lift helicopters built and projected.

Document: “Nova and Post-Nova Propulsion Summary,” Rocketdyne presentation, 1962, describing extremely powerful liquid rocket systems for vehicles bigger than Saturn V.

Diagram: SR-71 pilots instrument panels

CAD Diagram: Douglas DC-8-1004, 1945 design for pusher-prop small airliner

Subscribers/Patrons for the APR Monthly Historical Documents Program not only receive a monthly collection of aerospace goodies such as these, but can also pick up back issues all the way to 2014.

aerospaceprojectsreview.com/monthly.htm

 

 Posted by at 1:06 am

A note on the June rewards

 fighter, hi-rez, Monthly Historical Documents Program, Patreon, Patreon catalog, stealth, VTOL  1 Response »
Jun 302025
 

Once again there will be no voting on APR rewards this month. This is down to a few things:

1) Voting in general has been *way* down. I suspect a revamp of the catalog is needed.

2) Items I tried to procure this month proved unprocurable. Partly due to them being insanely expensive; partly due to someone else out there being fabulously wealthy and snapping them up anyway.

3) Things came up. I’m finding, with some concern, that the end of the month seems to be a magnet for Things Coming Up.

So, subscribers and Patrons, there was no catalog release this month. Rest assured, though, that within the next day or two rewards *will* go out, chosen by yours truly, Benevolent Dictator.

 

And while the things I really wanted proved unobtainable, I did get a few things off ebay. Sadly these are too late for this month, but should, postal system willing, be available next. All of them, gratingly, were more expensive than they should’ve been, but that’s the trend with this stuff anymore. Included:

Six-foot-long blueprint of the USS Akron “flying aircraft carrier:”

Four Sikorsky brochures:

Artwork of a Lockheed ASTOVL (I could have used this when creating a diagram of the craft in the recently released US Stealth Fighter Projects):

Artwork of a 1960’s Ryan VTOL COIN concept. I’ve been after this art, and more information on the design, for about 35 years now after first seeing bad B&W versions of this in Av Week. I’d pay real money for a design report/proposal/brochure. Anyone?

 Posted by at 2:56 pm

April 2025 APR rewards

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May 022025
 

Rewards for April, 2025 have been released. These include:

Document: “Performance Data Report for Class VF Convoy Fighter Airplane,” Convair report from 1950. 100 pages of data (no diagrams) on what would become the XFY-1 “Pogo.”

Document: “Hard Mobile Launcher” Martin Marietta brochure on the Midgetman launcher, with some bonus Martin Marietta HML info and art

Diagram: “Parallel Tanks Missile,” Convair diagram 7-26-54, apparently an alternate design for Atlas, much more like Soviet R-7 family. Reduced to 75% of original scanned size, which is immense and system-crashing.

CAD diagram: Lockheed B-2, a stealthier proposed follow-on to the U-2.

Subscribers/Patrons for the APR Monthly Historical Documents Program not only receive a monthly collection of aerospace goodies such as these, but can also pick up back issues all the way to 2014.

aerospaceprojectsreview.com/monthly.htm

 

 

 Posted by at 1:53 am

Feb 2025 rewards: slight delay

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Mar 022025
 

Perhaps as a surprise to nobody, I’m a little late on the February rewards:

1) The end of the short month snuck up on me

2) I’m at the VERY end of finishing up a project I’ve been working on for a year and a half

3) I was about halfway through processing a big report I planned on putting into the months catalog when it dawned on me… ‘hey, haven;t I already released this?” Ayup. A big waste of time. Gah.

Anyway, the rewards are all processed except for this months CAD diagram. Currently in works.

 

 Posted by at 10:18 pm

Norspiel

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Feb 222025
 

Now scanning: “Norspiel,” rules book for a wargame created at Northrop Aircraft in 1957. Not the usual sort of thing I go after, but it seems interesting. I wasn’t able to find anything online about it other than the ebay listing, so it may be new to the wargaming world. I’m not a wargamer (not since about 1987), so I’m no expert, but it seems a lot simpler than, say, Dungeons and Dragons or Warhammer 40K.

This will be added to the next APR Patreon/subscriber catalog to be voted on for a monthly reward. If this sort of thing is of interest, please check out: 

aerospaceprojectsreview.com/monthly.htm

 Posted by at 6:12 pm
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