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As much as I love the design of "Archie" (and the graphic novel "Watchmen" in general) I keep getting bugged over how it was able to fly. I can't see how it would have enough helium, nor have I seen vertical fan ducts, and as advanced the technology in "Watchmen" generally is, I doubt Daniel Dreiberg would have an anti-gravity device. ???XP67_Moonbat said:Justo's project looks like a distant relative of "Archie" from WATCHMEN.
ozmosis said:Robert McCall paintings (From his official website)
Concept and advertising paintings for the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, showing the PanAm spaceplane and Discovery One
I'm feeling a bit embarresed since it took me THIS long to realize that the bottom "concept" art obviously shows the 2001 spaceplane BACKWARDS resting on it's boosterozmosis said:Robert McCall paintings (From his official website)
Concept and advertising paintings for the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, showing the PanAm spaceplane and Discovery One
OM said:I'd link to the pic, buy the bozo running Doug's site has it all set up in a flash nightmare, and it's a bitch and three-quarters to swipe an image from that morass.
Barrington Bond said:There are links on this page to the pics on Trumbulls site.
Barrington Bond said:There are links on this page to the pics on Trumbulls site.
Orionblamblam said:Barrington Bond said:There are links on this page to the pics on Trumbulls site.
Oooh. I'm not sure how "canon" this is, but... damn! The very first view of the otherwise unseen booster for the Orion 3!
That is SFX Storyboard from Douglas Trumbull, not Stockimage from movie !Orionblamblam said:OM said:I'd link to the pic, buy the bozo running Doug's site has it all set up in a flash nightmare, and it's a bitch and three-quarters to swipe an image from that morass.
"Print screen" is the only method I've found that works, sadly.
I'd not put a lot of stock in this image, though. It looks pretty clear that the Orion was simply cut out of one photo and pasted over the docking bay image.
aim9xray said:Wait a tick - what's this? The Orion 2? The SpaceBus Industrie Z318?
aim9xray said:Thanks for the info!
Hmmm. The amount of station-keeping to keep the "Titov" stationary with respect to that window makes my head hurt.
Perhaps the production photographer wanted the white model against a black background?
Orionblamblam said:Barrington Bond said:There are links on this page to the pics on Trumbulls site.
Oooh. I'm not sure how "canon" this is, but... damn! The very first view of the otherwise unseen booster for the Orion 3!
Orionblamblam said:That model is barely visible in the Hilton office on Space Station V. It has been turned in to the Soviet "Titov" spaceplane, in model form:
http://www.planet3earth.co.uk/ilyushin%20titov.htm
Michel Van said:
also the Marsship from "Conquest of Space" by George Pál (littel help by Dr. Von Braun)
ozmosis said:Robert McCall paintings (From his official website)
Concept and advertising paintings for the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, showing the PanAm spaceplane and Discovery One
...An interesting film frame has surfaced recently courtesy of Doug Trumbull that shows McCall may have scaled the Pan Am Clipper about 10% smaller than the actual model to station ratio. The clip shows the Clipper in the landing bay, preparing for docking, and it barely clears the top/bottom of the bay. McCall's scaling allows for a couple more feet of clearing space.
I'd link to the pic, buy the bozo running Doug's site has it all set up in a flash nightmare, and it's a bitch and three-quarters to swipe an image from that morass.
You like the Nostromo? Then this will blow your mind:
the nostromo, part 3, the final shots
Here is the wrap up post to the final details and set up of the newly restored Nostromo miniature from 1979’s “Alien” it has been a while since the last posts were put regarding …johneaves.wordpress.com
This company is worth keeping an eye on if you have any interest in science fiction movies and TV shows. A few years back they ran an auction consisting exclusively of props, costumes, set pieces and set components from the Ender's Game movie. Their current upcoming auction is of a collection of movie posters.The 500 page auction catalog pdf is available here: https://content.propstore.com/auction/EMLA+LA/EMLA-LA2020_Catalog_OnlineView_B2.pdf
High quality pictures of items from many movies including Alien, Back to the Future, Blade Runner, Star Wars and Trek, etc.
While this book does not go back that far, are you aware of this new book - Star Trek The Motion Picture: Inside the Art & Visual Effects by Jeff Bond & Gene Kozicki?I remember reading that much of the early design of the USS Enterprise was based on concepts by NASA.
In the upper diagram is a green arrow at the ship's nose, indicating the direction of flight. The ship is 1.5 kilometers long. In the Sol departure phase, a battery of orbital lasers illuminates a 16 kilometer diameter photon sail attached to the ship's nose (sail not shown). A mirror shield on the ship's rear prevents the laser beams from damaging the ship. The lasers accelerate the ship at 1.5 g for 0.46 year. At the end of this the ship is moving at 70% the speed of light (210,000 kilometers per second).
Keep in mind that battery of orbital lasers is going to have to be absolutely huge if it is going to push a lightsail at 1.5 g. This is not going to be a tiny satellite in LEO.
Yep, more from Winchell Chung's* Atomic Rockets here: http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/slowerlight3.php#valkyrieISV Venture Star from Avatar - extra points for cool because it has the engines in front and pulls the rest of the ship along behind it.
Thrust is in the direction of the green arrow. Pic at bottom is the launch from Earth configuration (minus solar sail).
In the upper diagram is a green arrow at the ship's nose, indicating the direction of flight. The ship is 1.5 kilometers long. In the Sol departure phase, a battery of orbital lasers illuminates a 16 kilometer diameter photon sail attached to the ship's nose (sail not shown). A mirror shield on the ship's rear prevents the laser beams from damaging the ship. The lasers accelerate the ship at 1.5 g for 0.46 year. At the end of this the ship is moving at 70% the speed of light (210,000 kilometers per second).
Keep in mind that battery of orbital lasers is going to have to be absolutely huge if it is going to push a lightsail at 1.5 g. This is not going to be a tiny satellite in LEO.
Yep, more from Winchell Chung's* Atomic Rockets here: http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/slowerlight3.php#valkyrie
*Best wishes for a miraculous recovery of course, but thoughts and prayers are synonyms for 'useless'...
As an aside, page 181 features a submarine model designed by an esteemed member of this forum...The 500 page auction catalog pdf is available here: https://content.propstore.com/auction/EMLA+LA/EMLA-LA2020_Catalog_OnlineView_B2.pdf
High quality pictures of items from many movies including Alien, Back to the Future, Blade Runner, Star Wars and Trek, etc.
[...] A Gunstar is capable of rapid acceleration. Gunstars can also abruptly stop their forward acceleration by using reverse thrusters.
Curiously enough:A Starfury carries a standard armament of four forward-firing Copeland JC466/A Pulse Discharge Cannons and two Copeland JC44 Pulse Discharge cannons with an additional eight external hard-points on the engine pylons to allow additional payloads such as missiles or slug tanks.[5] It was powered by a fusion reactor system and had thrusters on both the forward and rear along with stabilizers.
The Starfury was co-designed by Ron Thornton and Steve Burg as a means to showcase how Newtonian physics could be portrayed in space combat.[12] The configuration was intended as a nod towards Ron Cobb's design for the "Gunstar" from the 1984 movie The Last Starfighter