"Aerospace Projects Review Presents: Big Damn Rocket Drawings"
In an attempt to recoup some of the costs (airline tickets, motel reservations, car rentals, days off from work, copying charges, etc.) associated with the research needed to do this journal and various other aerospace history endeavors, my latest stroke of sheer business genius is to sell large-format drawings of numerous rockets.
I have a number of large format drawings, and several more that will be, once the individual component copies are stitched back together. These drawings are all devoid of any copyright issues (to the best of my ability to determine) as they come from government contract documents and sources. A partial list:
Saturn V layout drawing - two different versions
Saturn V individual stage detail layout drawing
Saturn Ib individual stage detail layout drawing
A-4 (V-2) cutaway isometric
Modified Saturn V (uprated stages, 120" and 156" solid strap-ons, liquid strap-ons) layout drawings
Titan III layout drawing
Saturn B-1 layout drawing
Dyna Soar layout drawing
Dyna Soar inboard profile/bulkhead section drawing
Numerous General Dynamics and Martin "Nova" layout drawings
Drawings with possible/probable copyright problems:
Wasserfall inboard profile/layout drawing: was patched up and cleaned up by someone else, about 12 years ago
UTC Titan III 120" solid layout drawing (current employer, comes from their files, not known to be forthcoming about this sort of thing)
My current intent is to determine which drawings are of interest at the sort of prices that will be required at both full-scale (early guesstimate; the A-4 drawing will be ~$30, the Saturn V layout ~$40 with postage and packaging) and at half scale (scale based on size of the drawing as it came to me), and to scan those drawings and clean them up (many tears, dark spots, speckles, etc.). Hopefully they can then be economically printed directly from the cleaned file. I've located a service that can scan these large drawings intact... no need to stitch them back together, but they will need to be cleaned up. Which might require boosting the capability of my PC...
Here's a bad photo showing the A-4 drawing (54" long) and the first of the Saturn V layout drawings.
Here's another even worse photo showing the augmented Saturns and the Saturn B-1 drawing.
A photo showing Titan III layout drawing (no payload section was shown in the original document... thinking about adding the Dyna Soar).
A photo showing the Dyna Soar layout drawing. A reduced-size version of this was included in the big Dyna Soar article in issue V3N4 of Aerospace Projects Review.
A photo showing the sectioned Dyna Soar.
Here's the nose of the A-4 drawing, at full 600 dpi, 8.5X11, with all speckles included. Gives a hint of the detail in this drawing. THIS IS 800K, so it might take time to download. The real scan of the full drawing will be at higher resolution.
Here's the entire A-4 drawing, at glorious 36 dpi, with all speckles included. Scanned in chunks and just sorta slapped together, so some slight rotational problems. Gives a hint of the detail in this drawing.
If this is successful, I also have a relatively vast number of other, smaller drawings that could be cleaned up and made into some pretty spiffy wall-hangings. STAR Clippers, Space Master, CERV and several other Shuttle-competitor designs, etc.
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