British Manned Spacecraft

[Rhinocrates]

Still looking for that goddam book at an HONEST, DECENT price...

You can get by with one kidney.

 

[zen]

Still looking for that goddam book at an HONEST, DECENT price...

You can get by with one kidney.

Not with the whisky I drink!

 

[Justo Miranda]

I only protest when I'm kicked out of the bar.
Crocodile Dundee , 1986

 

[Justo Miranda]

British Interplanetary Society, Lunar Spaceship project, 1939

 

[Justo Miranda]

1947 version

 

[Justo Miranda]

1950 version

 

[Justo Miranda]

Source

 

[Grey Havoc]

BAe Multirole Capsule 1987 thread.

 

[Grey Havoc]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYgiV4Iz7I0

 

[steelpillow]

That saucer is actually quite prescient. Just extend the bubble into a full-width cone and you have the classic 1960-70s era re-entry capsule prior to the Shuttle. The spherical-profile heat shield protecting the manned cabin is spot on, although spin stabilisation fortunately proved unnecessary.

 

[publiusr]

Too much glass.

 

[TsrJoe]

Lenticular RV. ? Project Caliban, W.F. Hilton concept for BIS., 1953 ... https://www.astroart.org/1950s?lightbox=image_uvi
not sure from the artwork if the design is ovoid or circular in platform?

 

[martinbayer]

I want whatever the Brits used for their tea at the time.

 

[Orionblamblam]

Still looking for that goddam book at an HONEST, DECENT price...

There's a copy on abebooks for a mere $217.

 

[Michel Van]

There's a copy on abebooks for a mere $217.

You mean
The Dream Machines by Ron Miller ?
oddly abebook offer two for only $17

 

[Arjen]

I think @Archibald is looking for Dan Sharp's British Secret Projects 5: Britain's Space Shuttle. Try https://bookfinder.com , and keep trying. One copy on offer currently, from a US vendor, at 137 euros.

 

[Archibald]

I think @Archibald is looking for Dan Sharp's British Secret Projects 5: Britain's Space Shuttle. Try https://bookfinder.com , and keep trying. One copy on offer currently, from a US vendor, at 137 euros.

Thank you for the tip. I finally managed to find one, and did not regreted it. Fine book, really !

 

[uk 75]

Looking back at the 1960s I still have the two colour books about Spaceflight and matching volumes on airliners, fighters, bombers and helicopters.
Opening them up is like remembering long lost afternoons before bedtime!

 

[martinbayer]

For me, opening them is like remembering starry eyed dreams of humanity's mind blowing future in space that never materialized to date...

 

[publiusr]

I want whatever the Brits used for their tea at the time.

Not bad for coming back from space---nice and wide...

 

[Rhinocrates]

Looking back at the 1960s I still have the two colour books about Spaceflight and matching volumes on airliners, fighters, bombers and helicopters.
Opening them up is like remembering long lost afternoons before bedtime!

Likewise with this one.

 

[Michel Van]

Likewise with this one.

i got the German Version of this book