B-47/B-52 prints

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Dec 152021
 

Still waiting for my box of books to get here from the publisher in Britain. As repeatedly mentioned before, I will sell a limited number of signed & numbered copies with signed & numbered 18X24 prints. The prints are unfinished yet, but the image below shows what I’m working on: a B-47E (in 1/100 scale), a B-52G and a B-52H (in 1/144 scale), with some of the payloads they carried. I considered the NB-52B, but it had so many payloads that it would end up being a crowded mess.

Opinions?

 

PS: unrelated to anything, anybody know what plane this is?

 Posted by at 12:51 am

B-47/B-52 update

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Dec 062021
 

I hear tell that some copies of the book are to be shipped my way in the next few days, taking however long it takes to cross the Atlantic ocean. I would assume that customers who ordered directly from Mortons will get their copies shipped soon. Not sure about Amazon orders, though the listing currently says Feb 7.

I will have a limited number for signed copies (around 20). As with the SR-71 bookazine, I will include 18X24 prints made specifically for these signed copies; all copies will be signed and numbered. I expect that these will be $55 plus shipping, though I intend to auction #’s 1 through 5.

 Posted by at 3:32 am

B-52G info: better late than never

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Nov 182021
 

My book on the B-52 is now being printed (I understand that copies physically exist), so it is perhaps a little late for additions and revisions. Still, I remain on the lookout for relevant information. To that end I recently plunked down a fair chunk of change for a pair of documents on ebay… a set of blueprints of the B-52G cockpit, and a B-52G mockup review. I eagerly await their arrival. I have high hopes that the US Postal Service won’t drop a tractor axle dipped in anthrax onto the package.

These will likely end up in the catalog for monthly rewards. If they are of interest, and/or 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acquisition and preservation of such things, please consider signing on either for the APR Patreon or the APR Monthly Historical Documents Program.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 12:07 pm

Signed B-47/52 book interest?

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Nov 072021
 

I have not yet heard how much it will cost me to buy copies of my new book for signing.  But for estimating purposes I think I’ll probably have to charge something like $50 each plus media mail postage. I don’t want to guess what it’d cost to ship them internationally. Yikes. But as I did with the SR-71 book, signed copies would likely have signed 18×24 prints as a bonus… in this case, probably 3 or 4. Subjects as yet undetermined. I’m far from taking orders, but I’m interested in getting a read on the level of interest.  If spending $50 or more on a signed copy sounds like something you’d want to do, send me an email:

 Posted by at 11:19 pm

Naval Institute Press is having a sale

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Nov 012021
 

Half off the price of their books, plus free shipping. Woo! So if you have any money left over after you buy suspiciously large numbers of copies of “SR-71” and “B-47/B-52,” go get you some books about ships and such.

U.S. Naval Institute

 

And if you end up saving some cash on a haul of books, why not show your boundless appreciation…

 

 


Tips


 Posted by at 8:47 pm

Flashback: Engage Smug Mode

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Oct 192021
 

Almost four years ago I posted about a project known as “Flashback,” a vaguely-described mid 1960’s program to carry and drop a giant *something* from a B-52. What it was, exactly, was not described with any clarity, but there were enough clues that I tentatively speculated that it was a design for an American “Tsar Bomb” with a yield of fifty or more megatons. To my knowledge I was the first person to yap about it publicly. I sent what I’d found to a few atomic and aerospace researchers to see if they knew anything. At the time, they were as mystified as I was.

Today there’s less mystery. I was contacted by one of the researchers I had contacted back then, letting me know he’s writing an article to appear in a month or so in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, covering Flashback among other things. He has Found Some Stuff. In short… Flashback was a design for a 50 to 100 megaton hydrogen bomb.

Giggitty.

 

 Posted by at 10:49 pm

Boeing B-47 Stratojet & B-52 Stratofortress: Origins and Evolution

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Sep 282021
 

My next book is slightly behind schedule, but it is coming. I was recently sent the first “proof” of the book after the graphic artists laid it out; a bit of tinkering yet, but it is nearing completion. I thought it might be interesting to post a shot of the last page.

 

 

 

 Posted by at 9:32 am

Museum photos

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Sep 172021
 

If you contributed to my SAC Museum SR-71 photographic trip, you should by now have access to the relevant Dropbox folders with the photos. For those who contributed $10, this includes the “Best of” folder with 94 photos at 1.15 gigabytes. If you contributed at $30 or more for “All The Photos,” you should have access to:

ALCM: 47 photos, 546 megabytes

B-36: 159, 1.99Gigabytes

B-45: 85, 1.05 Gb

B-47: 168, 2.09 Gb

B-52: 179, 2.22 Gb

B-57E: 79, 1.00 Gb

B-58: 283, 3.48 Gb

Misc: 191, 2.36 Gb

SR-71: 280, 2.44 Gb

XF-85: 22, 282 Mb

You should have received a notification from Dropbox of your access to these folders. If you have just the regular personal account or no Dropbox account at all, most of these are too large for them to be allowed to sit on *your* Dropbox account… but you will still be allowed to download the photos, either individually or as a complete folder ZIP file. The description Dropbox gives is a little vague in that regards.

Also, because why not, I’ve added some “bonus” folders including photos taken during previous visits. For those who contributed $50 or more, you should have:

B-47: 75 photos, 89 megabytes

B-52: 53, 204 meg

And for those who contributes $100, you should have:

B-36: 60, 315 meg

B-58: 78, 304 meg

 

If you’re interested in the photos, or helping me pay for this trip (which included not only car repair/preparations, but also cat food, because *everything* includes cat food), or to help me work on the next couple of books and projects that this trip was in aid of, you can still sign on:


SAC Museum photo trip



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Note: Amazon still has my SR-71 book, but, jeez, it’s a bit pricey just now at $39. Did it sell out? Dunno. I *guess* that’s a good sign?

 

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