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Published: 2017-08-21 21:25:53 +0000 UTC; Views: 1320; Favourites: 25; Downloads: 50
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Prometheus Alpha and Prometheus Beta from Arther C Clarke's "Prelude To Space" (1948). Or, it will be when it's finishedRelated content
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Beautiful work, as always
I've always wondered: How does the beta launch without blowing the tail off the alpha?
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Beautiful! I love that book. I always pictured the mothership as a little bit more of a pure flying wing, but I really like your design's feel.
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Yeah, Wikipedia says it's a flying wing, but the book says it has "stubby wings" and looks like "a moth in repose."
I wanted it to look like a Brit designed it, so I based it on a Vulcan bomber, which was designed round about when the book was written ( and the RAF were still flying Lancasters!), and which was originally designed as a flying wing.
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one does see the Vulcan ancestry ..
and those inlets are large enough to crawl inside the nuclear ramjet
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Hah,like the saboteur did? I think so, I made the cockpit proportionally smaller than on the Vulcan for that reason.
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