38 rockets depicted with dimensioned, color-keyed drawings
55 B&W photographs
4 model plans
96 page hardcover
Price: $18 plus shipping
Retro Rockets: Experimental Rockets 1926-1941 is a book about the early liquid-fueled rockets of Robert Goddard and his contemporaries in the US, Germany, and the Soviet Union.
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Their designers must have been as much artists as engineers--the rockets of the 1930's would look more at home in a comic book than at a missile range. But these rockets flew, and made the space age possible. In 96 pages, Retro Rockets covers over 3 dozen rockets from the dawn of spaceflight with a mix of history, technical data, dimensioned drawings, and photographs. Readers who have used Rockets of the World as a reference will find the format familiar, but not the subjects; drawings of 30 pioneering rockets are presented for the first time in this volume. The rockets in this book blazed the trail into space: the first liquid fueled rockets, automatic launch sequencers, inertial guidance systems, gimballed engines, clustered engines, hybrid rockets, turbopumps--in short, every component of a modern space booster was tested on the amazing machines built by pre-war interplanetary enthusiasts. Most of these rockets make excellent model subjects--all the subjects are documented with the data modelers need. Model rocketeers will also find flying model plans for four of these rockets. High power rocketeers may prefer simply to use the prototype drawings as plans for full-scale replicas. |
Model Plans
Retro Rockets contains plans for the following rockets:
Rockets Included
The following rockets are covered in varying degrees of detail:
