Tridents compared

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Sep 162022
 

An Aerojet diagram comparing the Trident I (C-4) and Trident II (D-5) submarine launched ballistic missiles, showing the significantly larger size of the latter

The full-rez version of this scan has been uploaded into the 2022-09 APR Extras Dropbox folder. It is available to all APR Patrons/Subscribers at the $4/month level and above. If you would like to help fund the acquisition and preservation of such things, please consider signing on either for the APR Patreon or the APR Monthly Historical Documents Program.



 

 Posted by at 10:49 pm

Blue Origin New Shepard has a launch failure at Max Q

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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:

    • 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.
 Posted by at 3:59 pm

CAD diagrams such as these…

 aircraft, B-47 and B-52 Origins and Evolution, drawings, Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird Origins and Evolution, Nuclear Pulse Propulsion, projects, rockets, spacecraft, SR-71 Origins and Evolution  No Responses »
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:

 

 

 Posted by at 4:47 pm

The Wish.com military

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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!

 Posted by at 1:53 pm

Interest in new CAD diagrams?

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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.

 

 

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