HOTOL (HOrizontal Take Off and Landing) was a British Aerospace concept for a single stage to orbit airbreathing launch vehicle, originating in the mid...
D’oh. My “gotta save money” goal just took some substantial hits… I bought some vintage *original* art, the *actual* paintings, on ebay.
Send help.
First: A...
A recent ebay acquisition, this is a lithograph with a photo and color cutaway of the Vought ALVRJ demonstrator vehicle. The Advanced Low-Volume Ramjet...
I’ve just made the March 2022 rewards available for APR Patrons and Subscribers. This latest package includes: Art: A poster of the 1990’s German Sanger II two-stage-to-orbit spaceplane Document: Bell-Boeing “Pointer” brochure… full color brochure describing the proposed tiltrotor UAV Document: Cessna EV-37E STOL: 1964 presentation on battlefield recon/surveillance version of the T-37 Document: History [...]
The two aircraft are unrelated, apart from the fact that I have uploaded scans of each to the 2022-03 APR Extras folder on Dropbox for $4 and up patrons/Subscribers. The first is a brief magazine writeup showing illustrations of the Boeing and Ryan designs for the Compass Cope unmanned recon vehicles from the early 1970s; [...]
A few more items I’ve recently paid for that will appear on the APR Patreon/Monthly Historical Documents Program catalog: 1) General Dynamics report “Technical Proposal for Advanced Exhaust Nozzle System Concepts,” 1977 designs for advanced fighters 2) “NASA Aeronautics,” 1974 3) NASA Facts – “The Jupiter Pioneers” 4) “Cessna EV-37E STOL” report, 1964 5) Cessna [...]
