Kieran A. Carroll wrote:

Thanks *very* much, Gene and Jeff and Pat, for those links! (Wouldn't it
be nice to find one of those old kits?)


They show up on E-bay all the time:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...sPageName=WDVW
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...sPageName=WDVW
They made a scad of them, and they had all the sales success of a Ford
Edsel.
Two of them are twelve feet from me at the moment, making up the basis
of the crew quarters of my six-foot long Saturn exploration spacecraft
design. (I can send you jpegs of the thing if you are interested- the
origin of some of the parts is "unique", to say the least: "That may
look like a spun-wood milk can to you...but it looks like a fission
reactor housing for onboard power to me." Then there are the HO scale
garbage dumpsters and bicycle safety reflectors).

This does indeed closely match the big 1962 drawing that I was looking at the
other day. I'll have to compare both of them in detail, when I have some
spare time.

Owen said that he got a patent for this design, so there may be
some more info available from the US Patent Office database.



Figure out where the propellant for the three J-2s was going to go...the
model has enough on board for a good five second engine burn.

Pat