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Posted by TomZ2 on Saturday, June 18, 2011 10:19 PM

gregbale

Wow! B-17s in space!

Thanks for sharing.

Greg

Interesting comment, and close to a project near & dear to my heart.

Background: When I was a boy, there was an short story about someone (think Matt Jefferies of Star Trek) who was so good at imagining the future that the actors on an series he was supplying with props and sets behaved as if theyd been marooned in the 1800s. The illo is burned into my memory: The designers office was filled with appropriate paraphernalia. The desk clutter included something that in general configuration was very like a pair of Dragon B-17F Waist Gunner sets glued lengthwise:

It was supposed to be a cutaway of a spaceship. As I recall, there was a mistake visible in that model: a spaceman (the word “astronaut” hadnt been invented) in his pressure suit, “floating” on an umbilical, inside the hull.

I’d dearly love to scratch build that model!

Addendum: I should point out that the short story I mentioned had to have been printed, circa mid-to-late 1950s, in the rotogravure supplement of The Sunday Star, a now defunct Washington, DC, newspaper.

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Posted by thunderbearr on Saturday, June 18, 2011 7:58 AM

Awesome!  A car fan that shuts off at highway speeds.  Wink

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Posted by gregbale on Saturday, June 18, 2011 6:42 AM

Wow! B-17s in space!

Thanks for sharing.

Greg

Greg

George Lewis:

"Every time you correct me on my grammar I love you a little fewer."
 
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Sharing Walt Disney Reference Information
Posted by TomZ2 on Friday, June 17, 2011 9:52 PM

If someone is interested in building a fully detailed interior for a Glencoe “Retriever Rocket” (AKA RM-1 from “Man and the Moon”), I’ve scanned my copy of the article “Disney Plans TV Trip to the Moon”, Popular Science, November 1955, and part of it is a rather impressive cutaway.

Occasional factual, grammatical, or spelling variations are inherent to this thesis and should not be considered as defects, as they enhance the individuality and character of this document.

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