Looking for a starport article

[robject]

I'm trying to find out WHERE I saw an article about downports. It was perhaps eight years ago that I saw this article, and the article itself was probably older than that. I don't know; I don't even remember the name of the article.

I do know the contents, and I'd really like to find the article again. It mostly detailed the landing facilities of starports; it had nice text about landing strips and parkbays, and had very interesting (to me) line art depicting circular parkbays with a center, blast-protected launching platform. It also had useful line-art depicting different downport types, with and without attached scout bases and naval base.

Does anyone know what I'm jabbering about? Anyone know which magazine and issue this article is from? Help!

 

[mike wightman]

It reminds me either of a Dragon magazine article about a starport or one of the early JTAS issues.
I know I don't have the Dragon article anymore but I do have the JTAS, and it's in the reprints.

 

[shield]

It was White Dwarf, around issue 42.

Cheers
Richard

 

[Ranger]

Is this what you are thinking of?

http://eaglestone.pocketempires.com/StarportModuleCatalog.html

I think it has everything that you've described.

 

[Border Reiver]

I recall the White Dwarf issue but think it may have been earlier. The line drawn maps were the basis of all my downport and startown maps for years. Very useful article which disappeared when I sold off my White Dwarf collection last Autumn on e-bay.

But hey, I bought my new i-book from the proceeds.

 

[robject]

I am probably thinking of some issue around WD42. I will scurry around the 'web and see if I can tell by the synopses alone. Issue 42 doesn't appear to have what I'm looking for, I think...

Thank you all for replying.

 

[Swordy]

It is issue 43 and the article is named "Happy Landings!" Very good, actually.

BTW, anyone looking for such articles, I have many indices of magazine articles related to Traveller, some of which I have already published on http://www.travellerbibliography.org and several more to follow.

 

[robject]

Yep, that's it all right. It's a great article, in my opinion of course.