The hardback version of my second book is difficult to find these days, but Mortons has made an Ebook version available:
Mortons Books BOEING B-47 STRATOJET AND B-52 STRATOFORTRESS – ORIGINS & EVOLUTION Back Issue
Sep 152022
Sep 122022
An unmanned test flight of the New Shepard suffered a catastrophic engine explosion. The capsule seemed to successfully separate and landed normally, but that would have been a *damned* rough ride, with a bunch of eyeballs-out G’s for a few seconds.
On other launch matters: Firefly is gonna try to launch again today, not sure what time:
WHOOPS: scrubbed.
And NASA wants to try to launch Artemis on the 23rd.
Its maiden flight is now tentatively scheduled to take place on:
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- Between 6:47 a.m. EDT and 8:47 a.m. EDT on Friday, September 23, 2022.
- Between 11:37 a.m. EDT and 12:47 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, September 27, 2022.
Sep 102022
They’re going to try tomorrow, September 11, starting at 3PM Pacific time.
Sep 062022
I looked through a small fraction of my surprisingly vast pile of CAD diagrams for some I thought might look good in really large format. Some I’ve gone some distance towards formatting them that way already; some are still formatted for small sheets. There are more, of course. In no particular order.
Lockheed CL-400 “Suntan”
Lockheed M-21/D-21:
Lockheed A-12:
Lockheed SR-71A:
Lockheed YF-12A:
X-20 Dyna Soar/Titan III:
A number of 10-Meter Orion vehicles/sub-vehicles:
USAF 10-meter Orion:
General Dynamics “Kingfish:”
North American XF-108:
Lockheed A-12 concept w/canards:
Boeing B-47E:
Boeing B-52G:
Boeing B-52H:
Boeing B-52H + Skybolt:
Boeing DB-47E + Bold Orion:
Rockwell Star Raker:
Boeing “Big Onion” SSTO:
Boeing Space Freighter:
NASA Saturn C-8:
Lockheed STAR Clipper:
Sep 062022
If this is true, it speaks volumes about the Russian military:
Russia buys North Korean weapons, says US intelligence
“IF” being an important word there. This could be true; it could be false. If it’s false, it could be:
1) Western intelligence disinformation (not clear what the point of that would be)
2) Western intelligence misunderstanding/mistake (believable if it’s the same nitwits who plunged the world into the Biden Recession thanks to RussiaGate)
3) It’s actually Chinese weaponry, but filtered through North Korea because… reasons.
Buying North Korean weapons is a violation of UN Security Council Resolutions on North Korea. I suspect Putin doesn’t care. I guess I’d more or less trust Nork artillery shells to generally work, but I’d be leery of any missiles. Of coourse, it would be the height of jocular hijinks to sneak into the Nork shipments and tinker with the artillery shells so that every now and then they detonate immediately. A reasonable chuckle will be had by all!
Sep 052022
Back in 2016 I released seven PDFs of CAD diagrams formatted for printing at 24X36 inches (those are shown after the break). This was another product line that didn’t exactly blow up the market, and no further diagrams were released. But now that I have two books of CAD diagrams released, and two more coming (and potentially more after that), I’m considering trying again. The Lockheed CL-400 Suntan, A-11, A-12, SR-71, YF-12, along with several B-47 and B-52 related designs are possible, as well as designs that aren’t from those books (X-20 Dyna Soar, several Orion vehicles, etc.). If this sounds interesting, let me know; if there is something specific you might be interested in, let me know.
Sep 042022
Sep 022022
UPDATE: scrubbed again due to a leak. *Maybe* Monday.
Two hour launch window opens at 2:17 PM Eastern time. A couple channels likely to show it live. Weather is not spectacularly promising. If not tomorrow, Sunday might be a possibility.
Aug 312022
NASA now targeting Saturday for Artemis I launch to the moon
Officials Tuesday evening said teams are prepping for a 2:17 p.m. EDT Saturday, Sept. 3, liftoff of the Space Launch System rocket and Orion capsule. It will mark the opening of a two-hour window.
Aug 292022
From HERE:
- Sept. 2 at 12:48 p.m. (Two-hour launch window); Landing Oct. 11
- Sept. 5 at 5:12 p.m. (90-minute launch window); Landing Oct. 17
I’m having flashbacks to the early Shuttle days, when my parents would get me up at the crack of pre-dawn to watch the launch just before I had to catch my school bus, only for it to get scrubbed with one second to spare.
Wouldn’t have been the best launch weather anyway – this storm just swept over the SLS launchpad after NASA called a scrub. pic.twitter.com/uCSiQwIApZ
— Joey Roulette (@joroulette) August 29, 2022