Blended Wing Body Diagram book
BoMi (Bomber Missile) Diagram booklet #1 (X-20 Dyna Soar predecessor designs)
BoMi (Bomber Missile) Diagram booklet #2 (X-20 Dyna Soar predecessor designs)
Oct 192013
Oct 132013
The ebay listings for the F-23 derivatives, Lockheed Archangels and A-12 Avenger II diagram booklets will end Sunday… 13 hours from this writing. Bid now! Bid often! Bid insanely high! Bid like this is a mafia money laundering operation!
Oct 062013
I’ve put a few sets of 11X17 diagrams on eBay:
Northrop F-23 predecessor and derivatives diagram booklet
Lockheed Archangel Diagram booklet (SR-71 predecessor designs)
McDonnell-Douglas/General Dynamics A-12 Avenger II Diagram Booklet
I don’t really know if these’ll do at all well on eBay, but what the heck. I’m hoping they might serve as a bit of advertising, though. The Archangel set is very likely a one-off, a result of the printer actually spitting out two copies rather than one.
For those of you who were generous a good long while ago and have been wondering “what the hell?!?!” the technology and techniques I’ve been developing and requiring recently will prove relevant.
Sep 212013
A one-off vehicle being sold on eBay by builder Michael Vetter:
0212 Other Makes ETV
Buy it now for $100k. I think its off-road capabilities might be limited, however.
Jan 102013
Nov 172012
On eBay:
1980-s SOVIET *ENERGIA-BURAN* SPACE SHUTTLE 1:25 MODEL, 111″ HUGE AND DETAILED!
A very large model of Energia-Buran, apparently actually made by Energia, with a Buy It Now price of only twenty-five grand.
Assuming it actually does come from the Energia Rocket Corporation museum, I’m of two minds:
1) It’s sad that Energia is selling this off, for whatever reason
2) I’m sad that the Russians are better capitalists than American aerospace companies, who not only wouldn’t bother with museums but who instead would either have models like this stuff in some wooden crate in a storage facility, never to be seen again, or simply dumped in the trash or intentionally destroyed.
Oct 182012
Boeing 747-400 Model Airplane with stand
(It’s possible this was done as a joke, but who can tell these days…)
Oct 062012
Your right to resell your own stuff is in peril
It could become illegal to resell your iPhone 4, car or family antiques
The logic: you don’t own the copyright to that old novel or the Iphone you want to sell. Therefore if you want to sell it, you need to get the copyright owners permission.
Crazy? You betcha. But the Supreme Court is going to hear this very argument soon enough. Anything not made in the US may become *illegal* to resell. And since we don’t make much of anything anymore, that means pretty much everything may become illegal to resell.
Sep 152012
As should be obvious, one of my jobs is that of “model maker.” This is a job title that I suspect is not long for this world; more and more it’s going to 3D CAD & 3D printing. Additionally, American craftsmen in areas such as this simply cannot charge the cheap prices that the Asian “genuine Philippine mahogany” sweatshop/slave labor firms do. So to compete, we’ve got to be *better* than the Asian crap and/or often touch on more obscure topics. I try to do both.
Ebay is a source for a lot of the cheap Asian models. I check in from time to time to see what thing they’re cranking out now. I saw a Project Orion model listed… and I gotta laugh:
Wow. That’s just so wrong on so many levels.
Jul 302012
Two very large format (one was 36X120 inches) blueprints of the Boeing 2707-300 SST were up on eBay. I bid, and lost badly. So, I won’t be scanning them and making them available, sadly.
So, in lieu of high rez scans, here’s what you get: a coupla photos.
See, this is what happens when you don’t tithe a donation to me on a regular basis: I don’t have the funds to go nuts on the buying of neato aerospace stuff. So my assumption here is that these blueprints have been sold back to Boeing, who will store them in a deep dark place never to see the light of day again until they are fed into a shredder.
Sadly, I’m only kinda kidding.