APR Monthly Historical Documents Program

[Orionblamblam]

2020-03 package includes:
Document: "Shuttle Derivatives Vehicle Study, Study Plan," 1977 Boeing report D180-20558-1 describing how they were going to go about the study (not about the actual designs)
Document: "Reusable Launch Vehicle Concept Studies Winged Body Concept (Volume 1 Executive Summary)", 1995 NASA report on SSTO vehicles
Document: "XFV-12A V/STOL Technology Prototype," North American Rockwell foldout brochure on failed V/STOL Navy fighter
Art: "NASA Facts, Skylab" giant full color poster with art of Skylab
CAD Diagram: "D-21 Mockup" 3-view of the mockup configuration of the Skunk Work's Mach 4 recon drone

Is this thing on? Hello? Anyone???

 

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2020-04 package includes:
Document: "Aircraft Descriptive Data for Grumman F10F-1," 1953 Lockheed document on the competition, specifically the Grumman variable geometry Naval fighter
Document: "Flying Carpet Feasibility Study, Submarine Carrier," 1958 Boeing report D3-1870-8 on submarines designed to serve as aircraft carriers for Mach 3+ VTOL strike fighters. Numerous diagrams of subs and planes.
Diagram: "B-52/DS-1 Airdrop Installation Model 844-2050," 1962 Boeing drawing 35-17610 depicting the near-final X-20 Dyna Soar spaceplane under the wing of a B-52C for airdrop (test flight) purposes
CAD Diagram: Rockwell Trans Atmospheric Vehicle: winged SSTO on ground-effect unmanned accelerator

 

[Orionblamblam]

2020-05 package includes:
Document: "The Feasibility of Propelling Vehicles by Contained Nuclear Explosions," Dandridge Cole (of Martin Aircraft) paper describing an Orion-like spacecraft propulsion system
Document: "Submersible Aircraft Carrier for Naval Strike Operations, A Preliminary Outlook" 1963 General Dynamics report on *big* submarine aircraft carriers; many diagrams of subs and aircraft
Diagram: Lockheed two Stage To Orbit vehicle inboard plan/profile
CAD Diagram: "Hudson Airbreathing Hypersonic Boost Advanced Spaceship," 1980 design for spaceplane with mini-Orion engine

 

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2020-06 package includes:
Document: "Army Mechanical load Carrying device," a March 1963 General Dynamics technical proposal report on a sorta-robotic "mule" to carry supplies for troops in the field
Document: "Technical Proposal Manned Modular Multi-Purpose Space Vehicle," AST/E9R-12570, January, 1960, Vought proposal for orbital/lunar manned spacecraft, 193 pages
Diagram: "Boeing SCAT 15F-B7" large-format general arrangement diagram of an arrow-winged SST from 1965
CAD Document: HYWARDS, 1957 manned hypersonic boost-glide research vehicle from NACA-Ames

 

[Orionblamblam]

2020-07 package includes:
Document: "NASA Space Shuttle Task Group Report Volume III Vehicle Configuration," May 1969 report describing numerous early Shuttle concepts then being studied by NASA
Documents: "Briefing on the Refocused Strategic Defense Initiative (Edited Transcript)," 1991 briefing on Star Wars program
Diagram: North American F-107 general arrangement
CAD Diagram: Convair Landing Boat

 

[Nik]

Up-ending my archives this week for Martyn Fogg's classic 'Terraforming', which I found in seventh of nine nearest tubs, I also found many of your APR issues, still in their carefully opened amber mailers...

 

[Orionblamblam]

2020-08 package includes:
Document: "Weapon System, Atomic, Battle Group, M28 (XM28) (Lightweight)(Portable and Vehicle Mounted) and Weapon System, Atomic, Battle Group, M29 (XM29)(Heavy)(Vehicle Mounted)," concisely titled Army technical manual on the Davy Crockett nuclear weapon system, TM 9-1000-209-12. Just the thing to help you control your neighborhood.
Diagram: Large format XB-51 general arrangement
CAD Diagram: General Atomic "Putt-Putt" explosive-propelled test vehicle, with aerodynamic shroud

 

[elmayerle]

Davy Crockett sounds like just the thing for a really hardcase neighborhood watch.

 

[Orionblamblam]

Davy Crockett sounds like just the thing for a really hardcase neighborhood watch.

Or for when you're in a bind and need to win that neighborhood "Fourth of July Fireworks" competition.

 

[Orionblamblam]

2020-09 package includes:
Document: "Harpoon Universal Launch Adapter Unit" foldout full color brochure with a color cutaway of the Harpoon anti-ship missile
Document: "SLAM: Standoff Land Attack Missile," foldout full color brochure with a color cutaway of the SLAM derivative of the Harpoon
Document: "Integrated Launch Reentry Vehicle Configuration Study," short Northrop report on early shuttle concepts, using stage-and-one-half versions of the M2 and FDL-5 light body shapes with drop-tanks
Document: "Missions and Flight Operations for Nuclear rockets," Lockheed report LMSC-A653019, November 1964, describing and illustrating NERVA-powered upper stages for the Saturn V
Diagram: hand-drafted diagram showing the planned platforms for working on the Titan IIIM UA-1207 at the Vandenberg launch site
CAD Diagram: GAR-X, AIM-47A, AIM-47B: evolution of the large AAM planned for the F-108 and F-12B

 

[Orionblamblam]

2020-10 package includes:
Document: "Pretest Information 3.3-percent 624A Aerodynamic Investigation, NASA-Langley Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel," Feb 1963 Martin report on wind tunnel testing of the Dyna Soar/Titan IIIC configuration, several good diagrams
Document: "Manned Aerodynamic Reusable Spaceship," Douglas Tech Report LB-30733, Jan 1962, massive report on single stage to orbit "orbital airplane" (Aerospaceplane)
Diagram: North American Aviation B-70 bomber general arrangement
CAD Diagram: "Lockheed Shuttle Flight test Model," subscale model of Shuttle mounted to Avanti solid rocket booster

 

[Orionblamblam]

2020-11 package includes:
Document: "F-108 Employment Plan:" incomplete rough draft of a North American report on how to utilize the proposed Mach 3 interceptor
Document; Kaman K-MAX brochure, well illustrated
Diagram: "General Arrangment Aft Mounted Turboprop/Propfan Configuration 3," McDonnell Douglas proposal for a test configuration of the DC-9 with new engines
CAD Diagram: M-61 Vulcan cannon

 

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2020-12 package includes:

Document: "Carrier Based Bomber," Consolidated-Vultee brochure on 1946 twin-turboprop bomber, with substantial data, diagrams, art.
Document: "Economic Aspects of a Reusable Single-Stage-To-Orbit Vehicle," conference proceedings on the large ROOST SSTO, written by Phil Bono of Douglas
Document: "Shuttle Derived Vehicles, briefing to General Abrahamson" March 1984 charts illustrating Jarvis-like and SRB-X type SDVs
Diagram: Drawing 6511041 "FPV Top Assy" Lockheed SCAD (predecessor of the Air Launched Cruise Missile) missile general arrangement/inboard views
CAD Diagram: North American XSM-64A Navaho, operational design

 

[Orionblamblam]

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Just checking to see if anyone is paying attention.

Guess not.

 

[Orionblamblam]

2021-01 package includes:
Document: "Heavy Bombardment Airplane," Convair brochure, gas turbine design, 1945
Document: "The Future of Rotorcraft in Aviation," Westland Helicopters conference paper, 1977, diagrams of tiltrotor and supersonic-rotor helicopter
Document: "Preliminary Type Specification for Convair Turbo Prop Freighter Transport," 1964 report on six-engine aircraft to transport Saturn S-II stage
Diagram: UA-1205 and UA-1207 Titan III Solid Rocket Boosters
Document: "XF-103 Interceptor Technical Development Engineering Inspection," photocopies of a fragment of a description of the XF-103 with numerous technical diagrams, 1957
CAD Diagram: "Post Saturn" Launch vehicles to scale, Saturn V, Nexus, ROMBUS, Sea Dragon, 4,000 ton Orion

 

[Orionblamblam]

2021-02 package includes:
Document: "Aerion: A Faster Future" brochure describing supersonic business jet
Document: "The Rocket propelled Commercial Airliner" A clean, clear scan of Dr. Walter Dornberger's 1956 paper on a two-stage hypersonic passenger rocket
Document: "High Speed Boat," post-war Consolidated-Vultee brochure describing XB-46-like flying boat jet bomber
Diagram: "General Arrangement Task II" Lockheed Arrow-wing SST from 1975
CAD Diagram: comparison of 10-meter USAF and NASA Orion vehicles

 

[Orionblamblam]

2021-03 package includes:
Document: "Project Hummingbird:" April 1961 FAA report on VTOL and STOL aircraft, flown and projected. includes data, art, diagrams.
Document: "The Thor Missile Story:" educational filmstrip on the IRBM
Art: "XC-14" Lithograph featuring many, many autographs
CAD Diagram: DFS-228, operational Design: German WWII rocket-powered high altitude recon plane

 

[Orionblamblam]

2021-04 package includes:
Document: "Composite Powerplant for Combat or Transport," Rolls-Royce brochure on VTOL turbojets
Document: "The J57 Turbojet Engine and You" Pratt & Whitney brochure
Document: "Saturn Workshop AM/MDA Management Plan at KSC," 1970 McDonnell Douglas presentation on early Skylab
Document: "United Aircraft 1963 Pictorial Report," booklet describign UA programs, photos, art
Diagram: "Navaho XSM-64," Rockwell diagram to aid model makers
CAD Diagram: Grumman Design 119 fighter general arrangement