Aerospace Projects Review: The Blog

 APR, blather, new products, news  1 Response »
Oct 042011
 

Problems, problems. After numerous issues of late with blogs and such, a while back I decided to create spinoff blogs (such as the one devoted to my photos, started a month and a half back). I obtained several new domains, but before I could start copying stuff over, something screwy happened which cost me time, trouble and money, turning the Unwanted Blog into a blank screen. So once I got it back I’ve been devoting too much time and trouble to getting the new blogs up and running. The first of them is:

http://www.aerospaceprojectsreview.com/blog/

It is pretty much what is sounds like it’d be… aircraft and spacecraft project posts, along with APR updates. None of the humor or brilliant political analysis y’all have come to know and loathe about the Unwanted Blog. It looks different… because efforts to get it up and running using the “Suffusion” theme, what’s currently running on the Unwanted Blog, were surprisingly unsuccessful. The banner image wouldn’t come up, dashboard pages were blank screens half the time, so on. Efforts to close out suffusion and replace it with something else uniformly failed; I had to erase all the files and re-load the WordPress blog base codes. Ugh. So I’m assuming that something screwy is going on with the Suffusion theme… which I bet will eventually strike the Unwanted Blog.

The Unwanted Blog will – at least until it explodes – continue on much as it has. If you like the wide variety of utter bilge that I post here, then the UB will be the place to be. But if you come here only for the projects stuff… the APR Blog will probably be the place to relocate your bookmark. Right now there’s not much over there. Over time, I will not only copy over the new posts from the UB, but I’ll also go back through the “projects” category of the UB and copy over selected and re-edited posts.

So feel free to tell everyone you know about the APR blog. All projects, all the time.

 Posted by at 11:57 am

1/72 Project Pluto model now available

 aircraft, APR, awesomeness, drawings, drawings&documents, models, new products, news, projects, rockets, weapons  15 Responses »
Sep 282011
 

From Fantastic Plastic, the 1/72 Pluto/SLAM model I mastered a while back:

It is available HERE.

NOTE: The kit has been retired.

http://fantastic-plastic.com/ProjectPlutoCatalogPage.htm

And to help with the detailing, don’t forget to pick up your Project Pluto CAD drawings, available to download for $3.

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And For Grud’s sake, if you are going to build a Pluto model, you have to download a copy of Aerospace Projects Review issue V2N1 with the ginormous Pluto article…

Available to download for a miniscule $8.00!

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 Posted by at 12:15 pm

Titan-Boosted Shuttle

 aircraft, APR, drawings, projects, rockets, spacecraft  4 Responses »
Sep 092011
 

Even though I’m desperately far behind on getting out APR issue V3N2, I’m nevertheless also thinking about future articles. One I’m interested in is some for of “Titan Derivatives” article. The problem is in determining how to cut it off. The UA-1205 motors designed for the Titan IIIC were, after all, proposed for all kinds of other vehicles, from ROMBUS to Saturn Ib to Saturn V to Shuttle to even an atmospheric bomber.

Below is a March 1972 McDonnell Douglas concept for a Space Shuttle with UA-1207 motors as boosters, rather than the larger RSRM’s that actually flew. Along with the different booster configuration, also note that the orbiter is equipped with two podded turbojet engines.

 Posted by at 12:17 am

Print is dead and my website sucks

 APR, blather, contest, news  3 Responses »
Aug 202011
 

After looking over the responses (blogpost comments & emails) to my recent call for help regarding advertising, a few things *kinda* stand out:

1: The bulk of advertising suggestions are for web advertising rather than magazine

2: My website sucks in terms of layout and accessibility

3: I should sign up for Facebook and/or Tumblr and/or Twitter and use social media to Get The Word Out.

OK. Taking them in order:

1: I still think print ads make sense… I suspect there’s a disconnect between people who read magazines and people who surf the web. Shrug.

2: Yes, indeed it sucks. It’s the very lamest in late 1990’s web scribbling technique. So, here’s what I’m proposing… yet another contest. One hundred dollars ($100.00) in downloads- cuz I’ve got stuff more than I have money – to whoever cobbles together a set of webpages to replace the current pages. What I guess I’d need is a new front page and a page replicating the Drawings & Documents and/or the APR pages. These pages would need to include everything the current pages do… all the data, and of course they’d need to be able to be updated *by* *me.* As for the individual product pages, I’m planning on switching to linking to individual blog posts for each product, as demonstrated by my recent posting of a number of the Air Drawing sets. I’ll add the submissions to my website, and, assuming that I get a number of good ones, I’ll let all y’all decide which is the best layout.

3: Meh. I suppose I gotta. I’ve avoided Facebook for all the reasons laid out on the “South Park” episode, and I’ve always seen Twitter as being basically this:

But… I guess I’ll break down and sign up for ’em. Several suggestions were to set up some sort of group or something, and dump a bunch of aerospace images on it with links back to up-ship.com/blog, and hope that they go viral. Well, I guess it’s worth a shot.

But if I get sucked into some horrible vortex of time-wastage…

 Posted by at 8:08 pm

FREE ART!!!

 APR, humor  2 Responses »
Aug 192011
 

Feel free to print these out and wallpaper your town/office/school with them. Download ’em and jam ’em into your companies newsletter. Hijack a network TV signal and broadcast ’em Whatever.

If you’ve got better, I’d be glad to see it…

 Posted by at 6:50 pm

Where to advertise?

 AARRRGH, APR, blather, books, drawings&documents, Gah., new products, projects  18 Responses »
Aug 182011
 

I’m in serious need of jacking up business around here. Basically, this would seem to mean that I need to get the word out, especially regarding Aerospace Projects Review and the Aircraft & Spacecraft Drawings & Documents. I’ve done some magazine advertising in the past (most notably Fine Scale Modeler) with limited success. I need a return of print ads, or website ads, or something. Posts I’ve made on fora and newsgroups seem to have been of almost zero value, and nowadays seem to come with a “you’re a spammer” backlash.

I am open to practical suggestions, advice or flat-out help in this matter. Magazines, websites, relevant newsletters (I write the “APR Corner” bit for the Houston AIAA “Horizons” newsletter, for instance), what-the-hell-ever. Getting product reviews would be good, I think… but where/how? I know APR is a niche market… but come on, there have to be more than a few dozen people interested in this stuff on the entire freakin’ planet.

 Posted by at 9:48 pm

20% Off Sale

 aircraft, APR, drawings, drawings&documents, news, projects, rockets, sales & specials, spacecraft  1 Response »
Jun 282011
 

All downloadable drawings and documents and APRs, as well as Reichdream items. Sale excludes matter-mail items. Minimum order: $20.

There has *got* to be a way to do this with Paypal in a way that doesn’t seem lame, but I don’t know what it is. So, here’s what I’ve come up with: order the “coupon” below (a nominal fifty cents), and at least $20 more items… and I will refund you 20% of the total. More steps than would seem necessary, but I think it should be workable. Sale will remain up through the rest of the work week… longer, if I forget.

Remember to order the “coupon” and the items all in one order. Otherwise… it won’t work. No “coupon,” no savings…

Sale has ended.
 Posted by at 10:26 am

Article 34: Bell D188A Mach 2 VTOL Strike Fighter

 aircraft, APR, awesomeness, books, drawings&documents, new products, projects  No Responses »
Jun 092011
 

Now available for download is Article 34, the PDF version of the “APR Special #1,” Bell D188A Mach 2 VTOL Strike Fighter, already available as a printed book through MagCloud. The PDF file has been compressed somewhat to make the filesize manageable, but it still comes in at a hefty 60 megabytes. In that you get the full 72 page, full-color book packed with data, diagrams, artwork and photos… just in electronic format. And for the low, low, incredibly low price of only five bucks!


Check out the other Aerospace Projects Review available for download: http://www.up-ship.com/blog/eAPR/articles.htm

 Posted by at 9:25 pm

Get Up-Ship.com Updates by Email

 APR, blather, new products  11 Responses »
May 302011
 

For some years I’ve posted updates about new products (Aerospace Projects Review, aerospace documents & drawings, Justo Miranda’s publications, etc.) by email to customers and those who have requested to be added to the list. Recently, the system I’ve been using – blind carbon copying a whole boatload of email address – has become troublesome and unweildy. So I’ve just signed up for the “icontact” system to manage these email updates.

If you want to be added to the email list you have to sign up. All that’s required is that you add your email address in the box below and hit “submit.” You won’t receive any emails apart from the subscription confirmation (it’s free, by the way) and any Up-Ship.com updates I send out. Your email address won’t be visible to others.

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PS: If someone signs up for the mailing list via the link above, I’d appreciate it if you could comment and let me know if it all went smoothly or if there were any troubles.

 Posted by at 12:32 pm
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