US Bomber Projects

I've been working on a book on US Bomber Projects for some years now. Up
until recently, that work was mostly in the form of gathering
information... design drawings and the like. As Aerospace Projects
Review is finally about to wrap up, I'll be devoting more effort to this
project. One early experiment was to see how fast I could produce good,
consistent-quality drawings of the bomber designs; the result is the
drawing at the website below. The result, so far, is somewhere under
one drawing per day... not too bad, given that it's mostly evenings.

The attached drawing has the drawings completed to date put together in
scale with each other. The aircraft represented cover a range of
projected types... a number of "Space Bombers" and "Nuclear Powered
Bombers" are shown, largely because I have a particular interest in
those, and I had to start somewhere. The book itself may or may not have
common-scale pictures like this, showing different aircraft sizes; but
it *will* have the individual aircraft drawings shown at large size and
good resolution for modelmakers and the like. It will take me on the
order of a year to complete the drawings at the current rate, never mind
writing. It will *not* be a small book.

I've been giving some consideration to helping to fund this effort (I
need to take several trips to archives to complete the research...
airplanes, rental cars, motels...) by releasing specific chapters in
advance, or perhaps make posters or some such similar to this drawing.
Feedback appreciated.


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On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 05:46:00 GMT, Scott Lowther
wrote:

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...."Shuttle-derived Dash-on-Warning"??? This smacks either of
"Armageddon", or Pat Flannery's been doing kitbashing again in a
closed room with several tubes of Original Formula Testors Red Tube.
OM

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OM wrote:

On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 05:46:00 GMT, Scott Lowther
wrote:



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..."Shuttle-derived Dash-on-Warning"??? This smacks either of
"Armageddon",

More than you know.


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"The only thing that galls me about someone burning the American flag is how unoriginal it is. I mean if you're going to pull the Freedom-of-speech card, don't be a hack, come up with something interesting. Fashion Old Glory into a wisecracking puppet and blister the system with a scathing ventriloquism act, or better yet, drape the flag over your head and desecrate it with a large caliber bullet hole." Dennis Miller

OM wrote:


..."Shuttle-derived Dash-on-Warning"??? This smacks either of
"Armageddon", or Pat Flannery's been doing kitbashing again in a
closed room with several tubes of Original Formula Testors Red Tube.
OM



That one hit me as a little odd also; apparently the Soviets weren't
completely paranoid about thinking the Shuttle might be a space bomber,
were they? As to why the single vertical fin gets replaced with two
angled fins..?
Forget the red tube glue, it was that liquid cement in the glass bottle
that could really knock you for a loop.
Did you, like all other modelers I knew, actually taste the citrus-based
Testors Notox Cement?

Pat

On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 11:31:07 -0500, Pat Flannery
wrote:

Forget the red tube glue, it was that liquid cement in the glass bottle
that could really knock you for a loop.

....Yeah, but for some reason the buzz off of that stuff wasn't as fun
as ORT. Hence the reason I lamented its passing, and grateful for the
fact that I was able to score an entire display box of the stuff just
after the formula change was announced. One of my pop's old friends
worked at the time for Dow, and pointed out that "this new glue won't
hold ****!" So I grabbed ahold of every tube in town I could find.
Lasted me until the late 70's, but by then cyanocryolate had moved
from the Soviet trenches to the dime stores :-)

Did you, like all other modelers I knew, actually taste the citrus-based
Testors Notox Cement?

....Nope. I wasn't that stupid *or* hungry for citrus. Did you ever use
ORT or any cement as a quick-n-dirty attempt to shellack a floor of
some ship's cabin? Did you wake up one morning some weeks later to
find that it had eaten through the styrene?

OM

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his country. He won it by making the other | Sergeant-At-Arms
poor dumb ******* die for his country." | Human O-Ring Society

- General George S. Patton, Jr