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Sunday, 12 November 2023

THE EAGLE BOOK OF SPACECRAFT MODELS IN FULL

A few months back there was a note added to an earlier post requesting full scans for the EAGLE BOOK OF SPACECRAFT MODELS.

I had intended to do that for myself anyway but when I looked for the book I couldn't find it.

I literally looked at probably over a thousand books and very many cartons over several months.

I just found it tucked away in plain sight, the spine having no printing on it.

So here are 57 scans. Good luck to anyone who needs a Jetex motor for any of these!

Terranova47
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9 comments:

  1. Arto11/12/2023 12:15 pm

    Awesome book, awesome models. Thanks for posting Terran. I wonder how many of those models saw other incarnations as kits or toys.

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  2. WOODSY11/12/2023 3:25 pm

    Lovely scans Terran! Thanks.

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  3. Ed and Bettina Berg11/12/2023 3:42 pm

    Very cool and great scans!

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  4. Norman Boyd11/12/2023 4:17 pm

    Ironically I didn't know my Art teacher wrote such things until a few decades after my schooldays when I tripped over a copy of this online. Thanks for the full scans!

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    1. Terranova4711/12/2023 6:36 pm

      Norman, if it was you that requested the full scans, you are welcome, my art teachers were a dull lot whereas Ray Malmstrom was an aero modeller whose work appeared in Model magazines back in the 50's & 60's.

      Good luck building any of these models. The new electric engines may make flying them easier!

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  5. Paul Adams from New Zealand11/12/2023 4:33 pm

    Wow, that was a big job, and a great book. I actually have this book, but mine is a little battered, with the spine in poor shape. There was a whole series of the books, on various subjects such as aeroplanes, ships, and cars. But I do not have any of these.

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  6. Anonymous11/12/2023 4:37 pm

    Imagine - building your own spaceships from scratch! What a world we have lost. Thanks for this trip to a lost world - wow! SFZ

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  7. lewis p morley11/12/2023 8:59 pm

    Magnificent scans! This was a treasured book from my 60's childhood, along with its companion ship edition!
    My memories of my Jetex engine were all of the tedious pre-flight preparation and post-flight clean up, where you had to dig tighly packed green powder out of the casing and start all over again! The Thunderbirds SFX crew must have had a dedicated Jetex technician just to keep up with filming demands!
    I Googled it, but Jetex really is an extinct technology. I do wonder how small you could make an electric ducted fan system. That seems to be the only modern equivalent...

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  8. MISH11/12/2023 9:29 pm

    A wonderful set of blueprints, but I'm forced to smile at propeller driven 'space'craft !

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