Alex Tremulis...Responsible for the USS Enterprise?

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Re: Alex Tremulis...Responsible for the USS Enterprise?

Postby streamliner » Fri Dec 04, 2009 1:19 pm

As far as the rocket interceptor and the Dyna-Soar goes, the project gathered more and more momentum as time went by. By May 1945 it became a featured article in the USAAF publication:

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And then 5 months later (just 2 1/2 months after the atomic bombs were dropped) representative Holifield (he's not a Terminator, that's just a hole punch) presented the same rendering as a means to deliver a radar-controlled atomic bomb. That model jet that he's holding is basically the jet model of Tremulis' "Lady in Red" as seen on the wall of the Tucker design studio http://www.tuckerclub.org/bbs3/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1714. Photo from Page 1 of the Chicago Sun, October 23, 1945. This may have had a little something to do with escalating the nuclear arms race...

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Re: Alex Tremulis...Responsible for the USS Enterprise?

Postby Tuckeroo » Wed Jan 06, 2010 1:53 pm

Also posted under "Is this a Tremulis design?" but thought I would include the link here:

http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2010/01/06/tremulis-ornament-spotted-in-the-wild/
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Re: Alex Tremulis...Responsible for the USS Enterprise?

Postby TUCKER » Thu Jan 07, 2010 1:10 pm

Hi, do anyone here know what part number it had on the bottom of the ornament?
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