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Feb 212013

A small look at some of the drawings being worked on for Aerospace Projects Review V3N3. Shown here are C-132 and “Bomber Launch for Dyna Soar” drawings, formatted for 11X17.

Al

Were you still doing an article on Navy stealth?
- Anonymous
  
  There will be an article covering one particular design from that, but I decided that an article covering the whole “Navy stealth” would just be a mess.

The Unwanted Blog

Historical oddity March 4, 2015
In looking through some aerospace artifacts that were auctioned off (or at least attempted to be auctioned off) back in 2004, one was a memo written by Werner von Braun while he was director of NASA-MSFC in March 1964. You’d expect there to be a bagrillion of these sort of things, mostly pretty bland stuff […]
Dyna Soar Instrument Panel March 4, 2015
While the overall configuration of the Dyna Soar was set (and is well known) well before the program ended, the pilots instrument panel seemed to be in a constant state of flux. A number of mockup photos and diagrams of generally low resolution and/or poor reproduction quality. But a decade ago what appears to have […]
Mosul damage assessments March 4, 2015
Assessing the Damage at the Mosul Museum, Part 1: The Assyrian Artifacts and Assessing the Damage at the Mosul Museum, Part 2: The Sculptures from Hatra
USBP13/ USLP01 updates/corrections March 4, 2015
I happened to notice that the last diagram in US Bomber Projects #13, showing that issues various designs all together at the same scale, was not the actual finalized diagram. So I’ve corrected it. At the same time, I added an equivalent diagram to US Launch Vehicles Projects #01, showing all the boosters to the […]
The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress: let’s see how they screw this up March 4, 2015
Step one: change the title to “Uprising.” Bryan Singer Attached to Sci-Fi Film Based on Robert A. Heinlein Novel Let me guess: it’ll be lightly revised to become a tale extolling the virtues of living under a massive distant government, business and individualism are bad, and in the end everyone on the moon will come […]
Sure, why not March 3, 2015
Is the US government actually run by Nazi aliens? According to the Iranian news agency Fars, which is undoubtedly as reliable a source of fact as Pravda, Dan Rather or Brain Williams, German Nazi aliens took over the US government in 1945 after arriving in Nevada via submarine. Yup. Anyway, you should know that researching these […]
Smug Mode March 3, 2015
After stumbling across a 1974 issue of Analog magazine that I’d forgotten that I’d been lucky enough to have inscribed by Larry Niven (as regaled HERE), it dawned on me that I actually have a number of books that the authors have enscribbled for me. So I went digging. I’m *sure* I have more than […]
Impro Guns March 3, 2015
Whenever you’re feeling down and losing faith in humanity, check out this blog: Impro Guns It’s loaded with photos of improvised/home-made firearms from around the world. Some are *incredibly* crude. Some are extremely professional-looking. All serve as reminders that, no matter how poor you are or how restrictive and totalitarian the government, there are people […]
Unskippable March 3, 2015
Now this is funny. Doesn’t inspire me to buy their product, but it’s funny.
PDF Review: Space Settlements, A Design Study March 3, 2015
NASA SP-413, “Space Settlements, A Design Study,” was published in 1977 and brought together the results of a 1975 NASA-Ames Research Center effort to do a preliminary study of a giant torus space station for several thousand permanent inhabitants. It is a basic text on the subject of space colonies, but obtaining a copy of […]