Extras added to Patreon Dropbox

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Mar 052015
 

Along with the regularly scheduled “rewards,” APR Patreon patrons at the $4/month level and above also get occasional “extras.” I’ve been migrating them from the Patreon file system (which is a bit cumbersome and clumsy) to a Dropbox system (which is easy). I have just uploaded a number of documents to the Dropbox folder. These were prior extras.

Aereon SST brochure

“Introduction to Kistler” brochure

“Colonization of Space” by O’Neill

Aerial Gatling guns diagrams & info

Soviet article on a ramjet-equipped Sanger “Silverbird”

So if you’re a Patron, they’re available. If you’re not a patron but you want in, please GO HERE.

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PDF Review: Space Settlements, A Design Study

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Mar 022015
 

NASA SP-413, “Space Settlements, A Design Study,” was published in 1977 and brought together the results of a 1975 NASA-Ames Research Center effort to do a preliminary study of a giant torus space station for several thousand permanent inhabitants. It is a basic text on the subject of space colonies, but obtaining a copy of the printed book of course requires money (but not much… a quick check at abebooks.com shows them going for about $8) and online versions have typically been either black-and-white scan PDFs of indifferent quality, or versions rendered into painful HTML format. Fortunately, someone (it’s unclear to me who, though it seems a professional job) has scanned in the book and all the illustrations and reformatted the text into an all-new, clean PDF version.

The PDF can be downloaded HERE.

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Much more aerospace stuff is available via the APR Patreon.

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US Bomber Projects #13, US Launcher Projects #01

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Mar 022015
 

Two new publications in the US Aerospace Projects series are now available.

Now available: US Bomber Projects #13. This issue includes:

  • Ryan Model 162: A VTOL strike/recon plane
  • Boeing Orbital Bomb: a nuclear-tipped re-entry glider
  • Northrop Atomic Wing: an asymetric nuclear powered design
  • Consolidated Vultee High Speed Flying Boat: an early post-war Skate design
  • Martin Model 189: a canard version of the B-26 Marauder
  • Boeing Model 464-046: A six-engined B-52 predecessor
  • Curtis F-87C: a night fighter with bomber abilities
  • Boeing Model 701-247: a supersonic antecedent of the B-59

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USBP #13 can be downloaded as a PDF file for only $4.25:

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Also available: US Launch Vehicle Projects #01. The premiere issue of this new series includes:

  • Pre-Saturn Phase III Vehicles: 1958 concpet for clustered Atlas boosters
  • Boeing “Big Onion”: an SSTO to launch SPS
  • Northrop TAV: an in-flight propellant transfer spaceplane
  • Martin Orbit Project: A 1946 concept for a hydrogen fueled SSTO
  • Saturn V derived HLLV for FLO: A brief Saturn V revival in the early 1990s
  • MSC Orbiter 020: An early Shuttle with straight wings and a single SRB
  • Hammerhead ET: a way for the Shuttle to transport outsized payloads
  • Loral Aquarius: A way to make space launch cheap

 

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USLP #01 can be downloaded as a PDF file for only $4.25:

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