{"id":8398,"date":"2014-07-24T17:43:28","date_gmt":"2014-07-24T21:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8398"},"modified":"2014-07-24T17:49:31","modified_gmt":"2014-07-24T21:49:31","slug":"the-aerospace-projects-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8398","title":{"rendered":"The Aerospace Projects Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scott Lowther is a space historian who specializes in projects that<\/p>\n

on those programs that didn’t fly: the concepts that were too expensive, or politically non-viable, or technically infeasible or just plain unlucky. If you want to read about the P-51 Mustang or the 747, there are many books easily available. But what if you’re interested in the X-20 Dyna Soar or Project Pluto or the Orion nuclear pulse vehicle? Nuclear rockets? Manned missions to Mars? Hypersonic bombers? Vertical takeoff rocket powered suborbital passenger transports? Blended wing body jetliners? I’ve got you covered.<\/em><\/p>\n

Scott publishes\u00a0the aerospace history e-magazine Aerospace Projects Review<\/a><\/em>, where he tells “the tales that have been largely forgotten”. He is expert in finding\u00a0and presenting nearly forgotten and lost\u00a0reports, blueprints, brochures and the like<\/a>. In some cases he will create “accurate and detailed diagrams using CAD software. This all requires a whole lot of research, along with sometimes knowing where to go and who to talk to… as well as a lot of time and effort on preparing the information for release”.<\/p>\n

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For example, \u00a0one of his recent\u00a0issues<\/a>\u00a0focused on the \u00a0X-20 Dyna-Soar<\/a> projects that almost got a reusable spaceplane to orbit in the 1960s. The\u00a0128 page issue is packed with detailed blueprints, artists renditions, and text discussion 93 pages of which deal with the X-20’s history and design.<\/p>\n

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The issue also has articles on the\u00a0Lockheed CL-295,\u00a0\u00a0McDonnell F-4(FVS),\u00a0US Navy SCAT VTOL and the Republic Aircraft RAC-730 SSTO aerospaceplane. There is also a 49 page addendum with even more resource materials for the article.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Scott talked about his work on The Space Show<\/a> last year:\u00a0Scott Lowther, Monday, 12-2-13 0\u00a0\u00a0Thespaceshow’s Blog<\/a>\u00a0– Audio (mp3)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I will also note that Scott was involved in the marvelous page-by-page reprinting in the AIAA Horizons magazine<\/a> of the famous Colliers series on space in 1952-54. \u00a0(See posts here<\/a>, here<\/a>, and here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

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You can support Scott Lowther’s aerospace history research by participating in\u00a0his\u00a0Patreon site<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Scott Lowther is a space historian who specializes in projects that on those programs that didn’t fly: the concepts that were too expensive, or politically non-viable, or technically infeasible or just plain unlucky. If you want to read about the P-51 Mustang or the 747, there are many books easily available. But what if you’re … Continue reading The Aerospace Projects Review<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-rockets","category-space-systems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-2bs","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1198,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=1198","url_meta":{"origin":8398,"position":0},"title":"Exodus Aerospace update","author":"TopSpacer","date":"March 18, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"David Luther outlines the Horizontal In Line Launch Staging (H.I.L.L.S.) concept and previews the crowd-sourcing and small venture approach that can test it: First Steps\u2026Science Fiction to Science Fact - Exodus Aerospace Among your ranks are those who can contribute on many levels. 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