Unbuilt aircraft and Spacecraft Projects
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A film (via the National Archives) from the USAF in 1961: Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion, Manned Aircraft Progress Report for 1956 1958. Provides a lot of good views of the double-barreled XMA-1 nuclear turbojet. Also illustrates a number of proposed nuclear powered aircraft research testbeds including the NX-2 and the WS-125A nuclear powered bomber.
NASA-Langley film from1963 showing a 1/12 scale Saturn I model dropped from a helicopter, using a Rogallo wing for recovery. Considerable work went into using this system for S-IB recovery, landing on a runway for refurbishment and reflight. The booster would land horizontally on four skids. There s a good chance it would not have worked, [...]
The June rewards were sent out July 1. If you are a subscriber or Patron, you *should* have received an email with links/passwords. Purely by chance, all of the Documents this time came from periodicals. This, so far as I can recall, hasn t happened before in the last 12 years. Rewards this month include: Diagram: [...]
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The May rewards were sent out on June 1; I m delayed on putting out this announcement. If you are a subscriber or Patron, you *should* have received an email with links/passwords almost a week ago. Anyway Rewards for May include: Diagram: General Arrangement Basic Utility Helicopter V-107-II-25, Boeing, 1962 Bonus: for $8+ patrons/subscribers, a cleaned-up [...]
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I ve recently purchased a number of blueprints from ebay, all of which will be scanned and added to the monthly catalogs. They include: Four vintage Vought blueprints (3 of the unbuilt V-451 Guerilla, one of the V-447, would become the XC-142). Boeing Model 301 Heavy Lift Helicopter. Inboard diagram of the Convair SKATE seaplane attack [...]
A Lockheed design for a STOVL jet fighter, a predecessor to the JAST/F-35 program. This design was described and illustrated in my book US Stealth Fighter Projects. The full-rez scan has been made available to above-$10 Patrons/Subscribers. If interested: https://www.aerospaceprojectsreview.com/monthly.htm
April 2026 rewards have been sent to patrons/subscribers. A bit of a delay (again ). This time there were ZERO votes for the catalog items, so I selected them myself. I suspect that ONCE AGAIN something went screwy with the catalog announcements. Which is odd, since there are two wholly unrelated messaging systems. Sigh. So I [...]
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