From APR original print issue V4N3 comes a 16-page article on giant Boeing passenger aircraft… the Model 326 of 1936, and the Model 2020 and the true “Super Clipper” of the 1990’s. Many illustrations of numerous vehicles. Download for only $2.90.
Given the troubles of late with PayPal ordering buttons on blog postings, order it (and all the other currently available APR articles) here: http://www.up-ship.com/blog/eAPR/articles.htm
From original APR print issue V4N2 comes this 11 page article on the Martin “Spacemaster,” a concept for a two-stage Space Shuttle. The Spacemaster was unique in that the baseline booster was a dual-fuselage “catamaran” vehicles. Numerous diagrams of several versions of the Spacemaster. Download for only $2.00.
Given the troubles of late with PayPal ordering buttons on blog postings, order it (and all the other currently available APR articles) here: http://www.up-ship.com/blog/eAPR/articles.htm
From original print issue V4N1, a 28 page article written by Dennis R. Jenkins on the D-171, Bells submission to the X-15 competition. Loaded to the gills with diagrams covering internal and external configurations of a couple versions. Download it for $5.00.
Given the troubles of late with PayPal ordering buttons on blog postings, order it (and all the other currently available APR articles) here: http://www.up-ship.com/blog/eAPR/articles.htm
A few years ago, Penn & Teller’s “Showtime” series “Bullshit!” ran an episode devoted to recycling and all the BS that goes along with it. They sent their camera crew and a few actors out to pester some unsuspecting homeowners, to see how many separate recycling bins people could be suckered into accepting and having to deal with. Luckily, this segment is available on YouTube. In the end, the test subject were willing to accept up to nine separate recycling bins. This was played for laughs, since it’s clearly a ridiculous idea, and shows how far people will go to be seen as “green.”
Sigh.
In a regime set to spread across the country, residents are being forced to juggle an astonishing nine separate bins.
There has already been a storm of protest with warnings that the scheme is too complex and homes simply don’t have the space to deal with the myriad bins, bags and boxes.
The containers include a silver slopbucket for food waste, which is then tipped in to a larger, green outdoor food bin, a pink bag for plastic bottles, a green bag for cardboard, and a white bag for clothing and textiles.
Paper and magazines go in blue bags, garden waste in a wheelie bin with a brown lid, while glass, foil, tins and empty aerosols should go in a blue box, with a grey wheelie bin for non-recyclable waste.
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Compulsory recycling is commonly enforced by bin police who can impose £100 on-the-spot fines for breaches like overfilled wheelie bins, extra rubbish left out, or bins put out at the wrong time.
If people do not pay the fines, they can be taken to court, where they face increased penalties of £1,000 and criminal records.
Oy. JUST BURN IT.
After a year or more of Paypal and the blog playing nice, apparently something screwy has happened. So later today when I release the next batch of APR articles, the blog will serve as the announcement, but the Paypal links will be on the regular website. This is a nuisance since the blog is a hell of a lot easier to update than the website. But I can’t have this sort of trouble for the customers. It’s annoying for them, and impoverishing for me.
GRRRRRR.
This seems like a good idea to me. When a few individuals commit acts of blasphemy (formerly known as “saying what they think”), they make themselves big targets. When it’s being done by thousands spread across whole continents… the nutjobs will be hard pressed to do anything.
http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2010/04/22/everybody-draw-mohammed-day
Last up for today is a brief 5-pager from issue V3N6, revealing several VTOHL single stage to orbit rocket vehicles designed by Boeing in 1988. This can be downloaded for $1.00.
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Given the troubles of late with PayPal ordering buttons on blog postings, order it (and all the other currently available APR articles) here: http://www.up-ship.com/blog/eAPR/articles.htm
Next up from the original print run of APR is a 19-page article from issue V3N5 describing a number of designs that used the Gemini spacecraft for manned lunar missions… landers, orbiters and rescue craft. Article 22 can be downloaded for $3.50.
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Given the troubles of late with PayPal ordering buttons on blog postings, order it (and all the other currently available APR articles) here: http://www.up-ship.com/blog/eAPR/articles.htm
Hopefully todays batch won’t have the troubles yesterdays had….
Available now is the 21-page article on the Model 844-2050E Dyna Soar (the final iteration, about 40% complete when the program was cancelled) that originally appeared in issue Volume 3 Number 4 of the original APR print run. It can be downloaded as a PDF file for $3.80.
