San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive

[overscan (PaulMM)]

A lot of those drawings are copyright Alan Griffiths.

 

[Boxman]

A bunch of interesting stuff posted recently by the San Diego Air & Space Museum (SDASM) Archives on the Flickr Commons.

What appears to be a windtunnel model of a swing-tail CV-880/990 variant modified into a "Guppy" transporter, presumably for Project Apollo hardware.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/sdasmarchives/46806271764/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/sdasmarchives/46806262514/

A purpose-built six-engined tail-sitter transport for the Saturn S-II stage for the Saturn V rocket.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/sdasmarchives/46614588765/

More Convair / General Dynamics (GD) System 476L (C-141) illustrations and mock-up photos.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/sdasmarchives/46614590185/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/sdasmarchives/46614588285/

What appears to be illustrations of the Convair / GD CX-HLS (C-5) proposal.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/sdasmarchives/32587583147/

What might be a Convair / General Dynamics Advanced Medium STOL Transport (AMST) proposal (?), powered by four (4) high-bypass turbofans.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/sdasmarchives/47477227802

 

[AeroFranz]

Nice find, thanks!

 

[hesham]

Great find dear Boxman,

but I can't read the designation or drawing number on a rival to C-141 ?.

 

[Boxman]

This looks familiar, but I can't put a name to it or find the appropriate place for this in the forum, but I am almost certain others here can. So, I'd ask the moderators to move to the appropriate topic once identified.

Recently posted to Flickr by the San Diego Air & Space Museum (SDASM) Archives, a desk model described as "Model General Dynamics USAF Military Aerospace Platform Concept model."

https://flic.kr/p/2j5U2gu

 

[VictorXL188]

Wonder if anyone can put at least a manufacturer to this one from the SDASM archives

 

[VictorXL188]

Is this one something to do with Bill Chana?

 

[hesham]

Dear Victor,

we spoke about the first,here;

https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/small-transport-aircraft-projects.7057/#post-74827

https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/william-chana-associates-vtol-conventional-aircraft-projects.31790/

 

[fightingirish]

Just so you know, the San Diego Air & Space Museum (SDASM) Archives at flickr have been recently updated. Mostly pictures of known aircraft and (V)VIP's have been uploaded.
Here are some pictures, IMHO I found quite interesting:

https://flic.kr/p/2jGU7Es

View: https://flic.kr/p/2jGU7Es

https://flic.kr/p/2jGU41Z

View: https://flic.kr/p/2jGU41Z

https://flic.kr/p/2jGURuX

View: https://flic.kr/p/2jGURuX

https://flic.kr/p/2jGQwR3

View: https://flic.kr/p/2jGQwR3

https://flic.kr/p/2jGCtZu

View: https://flic.kr/p/2jGCtZu

https://flic.kr/p/2jGU5kn
and
https://flic.kr/p/2jGBDjc

 

[hesham]

Nice find my dear Rolf,and for Chana,

https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/william-chana-associates-vtol-conventional-aircraft-projects.31790/

 

[flateric]

SDASM stuff @Archive.Org
Big thanks to unsung heroes of preservation and scanning

https://archive.org/details/%40sdasm_archives

advise you to download using torrent client

 

[litzj]

https://jaesan-aero.blogspot.com/2024/08/202408san-diego-air-space-museum.html

Not archive but share some pictures for you

 

[fightingirish]

Hi folks,
especially dear @overscan (PaulMM) ,dear @Mark Nankivil ,dear @Stargazer ,@Jemiba, @flateric , @Deino and dear @hesham ,
unfortunately I have bad Internet connection today, but I want all you to know, that quite a lot of interesting pictures have been uploaded to SDASM Flickr Archive this evening.
Feel free to post some of these pictures in the suitable topics.
Thanks again for understanding and support.
Slán,
fightingirish

 

[bercr]

Quite a lot of interesting pictures have been uploaded to SDASM Flickr Archive this evening.

You're right. I hope SDASM will continue this way, and that the grant received by SDSAM to digitize Convair negatives will finally be used to digitize negs of interesting prototypes, not only pipes, beams, wires and cardboard boxes...

 

[Mark Nankivil]

Wonder if anyone can put at least a manufacturer to this one from the SDASM archives
View attachment 636485

https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/william-chana-associates-vtol-conventional-aircraft-projects.31790/

 

[bercr]

Many new great photos on sdasmarchives Flickr account (April 29, 2025) : Convair Model 118 ConvAirCar, Model 110 (1946), XP-81, Tradewind, color period photos of XF-92 and so on

 

[Stargazer]

Convair Model 188 ConvAirCar

That should be Model 118... but thanks for the info!

 

[bercr]

Thank you, fixed.

 

[bercr]

Many new great COLOR photos (though discolored) on sdasmarchives Flickr account (May 5, 2025). For the moment they are not tagged nor titled accurately, you have to search by date: May 5, 2025
XP-81, XB-36, NB-36H, XC-99, XF-92A, YF-102A, XB-46, XFY-1 and many others.

A few images:

 

[Archibald]

Pretty weird to see F-102s with the same yellow color as chinese stealth prototypes.

 

[sienar]

Its primer

Zinc chromate - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[bercr]

Consolidated Vultee XP-81, I have tried to remove the red cast, the image is better but not yet perfect.

 

[Stargazer]

Consolidated Vultee XP-81, I have tried to remove the red cast, the image is better but not yet perfect.

Great pic! Here it is improved some more, hope this helps!