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So since his ban, did he state that he wouldn't be creating either a paper or .off copy?Where'd you find it? Just curious - I have a copy that I certainly didn't want to part with. Also, there has been a project to update the erratta with Dr. Mandell, but it got derailed when the fellow spearheading it got banned here.
What did they do?Where'd you find it? Just curious - I have a copy that I certainly didn't want to part with. Also, there has been a project to update the erratta with Dr. Mandell, but it got derailed when the fellow spearheading it got banned here.
I've had the same thought.Maybe I should ask him for my contribution back if he isn't going to complete this.
I owe him an email, it's been a couple of months and I didn't want to let it go that long. This is sad; Dr. Mandell had, according to Dave, finished the errata and they were really close to going. I had written a forward for it (not that i was intimately involved with the project, I didn't even contribute). But then the sparks flew, as Chuck noted, over non-rocketry topics. Never should have happened, the man was a valuable resource and always ready to jump in and provode scale data a photos of all sorts of historical rockets.
Yes, his dad did pass, as @shockie noted, in Jan 2023 as noted on YORF. I hope I can convince him to go on with it. It is a seminal work and a real treasure.
Unfortunately as well, Dave holds the exclusive permission to do that duplication, what you say is exactly what he was almost done doing, apparently. He posted it on the thread that we were discussing the matter on, not sure if you recall, but I'm pretty sure you posted there, especially since you contributed financially.I would seriously consider taking this to a professional printing company and have them scan/ocr it and create a .pdf.
Where's Kinko's when you need them?
Vern Estes once mailed me his complete collection of The Model Rocketeer and I scanned each and everyone. Also OCR them to create a searchable database.
Unfortinately, I decided to take a trip to the dark side of the web and ended up with malware that literally ate my disk drives up.
And I had no backup of course
If it could be ocr'ed then a searchable file could be created and placed on TRF and YORF/YORF
Never would. I have too much respect for the authors, one of which is a 50+ year NAR member.Please do not post any copyrighted material on the forum.
I had about half of it OCR'd and the equations mathtyped in, but nobody seemed interested.It was at least a scan and PDF of the original with errata. I'm not sure if they were doing OCR and searchable text or not.
ETA: I also have an original hardcover that I bought shortly after publication in 1973 or 1974. No dust jacket, though, but I'm not really concerned with that.
Yeah, I do recall that, and to be honest, that would be a wonderful way to go - I like those math typesetter programs. I hope you preserved some of it, and perhaps if we can get this going again, your labor won't be in vain.I had about half of it OCR'd and the equations mathtyped in, but nobody seemed interested.
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