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Old 08-11-2020, 11:23 PM
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Peter Alway posted the .pdf on TRF in this thread:
https://www.rocketryforum.com/threa...7/#post-1919862


Nice find !

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Old 08-12-2020, 07:54 PM
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If you know of others please post them here.
If you know the rockets included in the data sets please post them here.

Thanks for the help with the dates for some of the booklets.

Steve


I seem to recall that the photo and data sets included the US manned space program--Mercury-Redstone, Mercury-Atlas, Gemini-titan, Saturn IB, and Saturn V. I think there was a Black Brant II [EDIT: there was no Black Brant II set. It was Black Brant III. I have never found a color BB II picture] and Trailblazer II. Perhaps I can find an ancient catalog somewhere.

There were two versions of the poster, and I have some left of both. I might try selling those by mail order, as well.

I have to admit that Gus's list was kind of overwhelming to look at. Eep.

By the way, right now I am chugging along on a booklet about USAF missiles. Just finished writing up Atlas A, B, and D (the versions I can draw) and am working up a drawing on an extra version of the B (not Score, as Score is already drawn) and an extra version of the D (I have the Mk 2 nose version drawn, and I want to add the Mk 3 nose. Then there's a whole littany of other USAF missiles. A but of drawing and a whole lot of writing to go.

In the middle of all this, I just went down a rabbit hole on how H-bombs work, flashing back to when I used to work with microscopic(!) H-bomb casings 40 years ago. No, I don't know anything classified, but I had a clearance to allow me to do unclassified work in rooms that might have had classified data in them.

The joys of making sense of the history of rocketry!

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Old 03-12-2024, 07:19 PM
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At our yearly JMRC holiday party I won a copy of one of Peter's data packs for the Black Brant III. I was really intrigued and thought I would share it here just because most of us have never seen one. This one came out in 1994. That's a year after the first Rockets of the world.

The data pack included two double-sided sheets with the standard description and diagrams as seen in ROTW. But I was very surprised to see that there are also four color photographs. I talked to Pete this week and found out that he had transparencies that he then had converted into real color photographs. Very cool.

I had occasion a couple of weeks ago to help one of our US junior team hopefuls who wanted to enter a Black Brant III in the Arizona Cup scale competition. I was helping him with the data pack, but had trouble online finding color photos. So to find four of them in Peter's packet was really a treat.

I am sharing those photos here, in case anyone else might find them useful.

I am also going to ask Peter to weigh in here to update the list of his publications since 2020.
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Higher resolution, copies of the four photos. Thanks, Pete!
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Friends,

I thought some of you might find this useful. A list of Peter Alway books by year of publication.

1990 Scale Model Rocketry: A Guide for the Historian/Craftsman Paperback
1993 Rockets of the World 1st ed Paperback
1993 Rockets of the World 1st ed Hardback
1994 The Art of Scale Model Rocketry Paperback
1995 Rockets of the World 2nd ed Hardback
1996 Retro Rockets Hardback
1998 Scale Bash Paperback
1999 Rockets of the World 3rd ed Hardback
1999 Rockets of the World 1999 Supplement Paperback
1999 Fourteen US Army Missiles of the Cold War Paperback
2000 Rockets of the World 2000 Supplement Paperback
2000 In the Shadow of the V-2 Paperback
2001 Rockets of the World 2001 Supplement Paperback
2002 Rockets of the World 2002 Supplement Paperback
2003 Rockets of the World 2003 Supplement Paperback
2004 Rockets of the World 2004 Supplement Paperback
2004 Twelve Soviet Missiles of the Cold War Paperback
2008 Rockets of the World 4th ed Hardback
2009 Peter's Little Book of Goofy Rocket Plans Paperback
2017 The First Seven Centuries of Rocketry Paperback
2018 The V-2 Modeler's Painting Guide Paperback
2019 Eighteen Rockets and Missiles of World War II Paperback
2020 Twenty Rockets of Robert H. Goddard Paperback
2020 Sixteen Rockets of the Spaceflight Dreamers Paperback


Let's add some more
2021 Selected USAF Missiles of the Cold War
2022 Selected US Navy Missiles of the Cold War

I can't find a comprehensive list of color photo and data sets from the 1990's, but I have them filed in my data binders. I have just over 100 data binders, and I'm not going to search them for these things. I looked up four of them today, and I'm pretty sure the sets were:

Mercury-Redstone Color photo and Data Set
Mercury-Atlas Color photo and Data Set
Gemini-Titan II Color photo and Data Set
Saturn I Block I Color photo and Data Set
Saturn I Block II Color photo and Data Set
Saturn IB Color photo and Data Set (confirmed)
Saturn V Color photo and Data Set (confirmed)
Black Brant III Color photo and Data Set (confirmed)
Trailblazer I and II Color photo and Data Set (confirmed0

I produced two posters, one, called "Rockets of the World" was on heavy paper with a sky-blue background, A second, also "Rockets of the World," but I called it the Special Edition poster was on thin paper on a red-orange-Yellow gradient. Another illustrator used the Rockets of the World title, and put his rocket drawings on a white background.

I'm not sure anyone but Steve wants this information, but here it is at his request.

I have submitted four scale articles to Sport Rocketry since October 2023. First was one on the Aerobee 100 Jr, including the Seabee. The second was the NACA RM-6. The third was the "Cub" scout. The latest submission was on the MLAS. Tom Beach told me the magazine was booked up for a few issues when I submitted the first one, so I can't say when or if any of these will get to press.
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Old 03-13-2024, 05:44 PM
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Peter,

Thanks so much for updating the list and for the production of such magnificent work over all these years.

I'm looking forward to reading the sport rocketry articles.

Steve
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