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.


http://www.up-ship.com/apr/extras/co...-7-10-2005.gif

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