New Aircraft Drawing: AH-56 Cheyenne

 aircraft, awesomeness, drawings, new products, weapons  2 Responses »
Oct 112009
 

Perhaps the single most impressive helicopter to ever almost make it into production, the Lockheed AH-56 Cheyenne represented the pinnacle of late 1960’s helicopter technology. Featuring a pusher prop, larger than average stub wings, rigid rotors and a gunners station that could rotate a full 360 degrees, the AH-56 would seem futuristic even today. Sadly, the technology simply wasn’t quite ready at the time, and the very expensive helicopter failed to make it into production.

Now available for download is Lockheed drawing 1005976, “Inboard Profile – Model AH-56A.” This includes four versions of the drawing… the original full color version and a cleaned-up grayscale version (8856X3213 pixels), as well as halfsize versions of each for easier viewing and printing. This is a very nice drawing of a very impressive vehicle.
The AH-56A drawing can be downloaded for $6.50:


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More drawings will be coming shortly, along with updates to the Drawigns & Documents page.

 Posted by at 8:01 pm

Northrop MX-775 “Boojum”

 aircraft, drawings, nukes, projects  1 Response »
Oct 102009
 

See, this is what happens when you don’t plan ahead adequately… the source data on this most recent contest entry is currently not accessible. The last contest showed artwork of the Northrop MX-775B “Boojum,” the supersonic and unbuilt stablemate of the MX-775A “Snark.” Some online sources on this include THIS and THIS and THIS. However, I did have a few goodies. The Boojum was to be either ground or air launched; and for air launch it could either be off the back of a B-60 bomber (which at the time was expected to be a swept-wing, turboprop-eqipped version of the B-36) or from a B-36. Two drop tanks were envisioned for the Boojum… one being a large subsonic wing, allowing for long-range subsonic cruise; and the other being a “slipper” tank that conformed to the Boojums fuselag, allowing supersonic cruise.

More on this when I can.

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 Posted by at 6:00 pm

What… the………

 dumbassery, Obamazombies, politics  10 Responses »
Oct 092009
 

Even though I’m currently not in the optimal position for blogging, this obviously cannot go without comment:

President Barack Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize

OSLO – President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples,” the Norwegian Nobel Committee said, citing his outreach to the Muslim world and attempts to curb nuclear proliferation.

When i first read the headline through my bleary eyes, I thought it was a lame joke. No, it turns out it’s an elaborate joke by that same group of insane chuckleheads who thought that terrorist Yassir Arafat and slide-show scam artist Al Gore also deserved a Nobel Peace Prize.

I suspect we can solve the worlds energy crisis by ramming a big magnet up Alfred Nobel’s ass and wrapping him in coppr coils. At the rate in which he must be spinning in his grave, he should be able to generate several hundred terawatts at least.

Note that Prize nominations were closed on February fisrt. Obama took office on January 20. This means the Norwegian Nobel committee nominated him after he’d put in a whole dozen days in office. Does this make *any* sense?

 Posted by at 5:58 am

1/288 Orion Battleship Model Parts

 awesomeness, models, nukes, spacecraft  4 Responses »
Oct 072009
 

This is not the best photo, but time is short and it’ll do the job. Below you can see the parts after they’ve been 3-D “printed” and cleaned up & finished by yours truly. They are now boxed up for shipment to Fantastic Plastic. What’s shown below is not a complete kit, but instead the unique parts. Some parts will be cast multiple times… two boats, 4 taxies, 3 turret bays & turrets, etc. The pistons will be provided by way of lengths of tubing, the pusher plate by a  sheet of plastic to be trimmed to shape (casting a resin pusher plate in scale would have been nightmarish, given that it’s be thin as cardstock).

When the parts were briefly assembled, it looked to be a fairly meaty, impressive kit.

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 Posted by at 7:09 pm

Here’s how to lie with statistics

 dumbassery, politics, weapons  1 Response »
Oct 072009
 

Note the title of this article by NewScientist:

Carrying a gun increases risk of getting shot and killed 

Well. That sounds pretty definitive. It also reads as “here’s a bullet-point for youto use when arguing in favor of more gun control.”

But what did the study actually present?

Packing heat may backfire. People who carry guns are far likelier to get shot – and killed – than those who are unarmed, a study of shooting victims in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has found.

It would be impractical – not to say unethical – to randomly assign volunteers to carry a gun or not and see what happens. So Charles Branas’s team at the University of Pennsylvania analysed 677 shootings over two-and-a-half years to discover whether victims were carrying at the time, and compared them to other Philly residents of similar age, sex and ethnicity. The team also accounted for other potentially confounding differences, such as the socioeconomic status of their neighbourhood.

Note that it does not say whether the people who got shot were themselves criminals.
In any event, hopefully within the year the USSC will rule properly on McDonald vs. Chicago, and the dumbass gun bans that have helped turn numerous urban areas into criminal cesspits will be overturned. And if things go *really* well, citizens who ahve suffered under these bans will be able to sue the pants off not just the cities and states that have enacted these bans, but also the treacherous scumbags who passed them in the first place (though most of them are probably worm food, given how old these bans are).

 Posted by at 5:46 pm

Iran: We’ll launch missile into space

 news, nukes, politics, weapons  5 Responses »
Oct 072009
 

Yeah. This is good news…

 http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3786886,00.html

Islamic Republic’s Space Agency says Kavoshgar-3 to be launched within next six months for research purposes

A previous model of the Kavoshgar-3 missile was used by Iran to launch a satellite into space in February.

“The Kavoshgar-3 missile will be launched into space by the end of the Persian year (which ends on March 20) for the purpose of research,” Mohammad Ibrahimi of the ISA was quoted as saying in honor of the Islamic Republic’s space week.

There was once a time when for a missile to truly be a threat as an ICBM, it would need several capabilities:

1) A payload weight big enough for a large thermonuclear weapon and its re-entry vehicle

2) Some measure of accuracy

3) A developed and reliable thermonuclear weapon and re-entry vehicle.

It seems likely that the Iranian sat-launcher will have a small payload, will probably not be terribly accuract, and they probably do not have a well-developed re-entry vehicle. So don’t worry too much about Iranian nukes raining down out of space.

Sadly, setting off a small nuke somewhere over the middle of the US at a few hundred miles altitude is well within this rocket’s capabilities.

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 Posted by at 2:44 pm

Why do you read The Unwanted Blog?

 blather  41 Responses »
Oct 072009
 

I may be a little unavailable over the next little while (good and vague, eh?). So in the meantime, I’d like to satisfy my curiosity on one point: if you are a regular or semi-regular reader of this blog…. why? Please post a comment. Is it:

1) Aircraft projects

2) Spacecraft projects

3) Landscape photos

4) Cats

5) Political yammerings

6) Something else

 Posted by at 10:42 am

Yay! My financial worries are at an end!!!

 blather, dumbassery, humor  5 Responses »
Oct 062009
 

Behold this glorious email that I just got:

From: Mr. John Dikko
Country: Ivory Coast
Region: West Africa

Hi Dear,
Greetings from Ivory Coast; please permit me to inform you my desire of going into a lasting business relationship with you, I thank God for coming across your contact and I believe by God grace you will not disapoint me in any way. My name is, JOHN DIKKO, I am the only child and son of Late Chief & Mrs EDWARD DIKKO who his death occurred as a result of assassination.

My late father was a Traditional Ruler and a wealthy Gold Dealer based in Abidjan city, the economical capital of Ivory Coast / Cote d’Ivoire. Before the death of my late Father, he deposited the sum of (Seven Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) $7,500,000 in a Bank here with my name as the next of kin. The money is in the bank were my late father deposited it before his sudden death, and I have the vital documents my late father used in depositing the money in the bank, I decided to run out from our family house with the deposit documents and now residing in a local hotel for safety of my life.

I wish to contact you personally for a lasting business relationship and investment program in your country due to the maltreatment I am receiving from my step mother. She wanted to kill me and take away all my late father treasury and properties from me since the unexpected death of my father. Please I am seeking for your assistance to help me transfer the money to your base for investment purpose; such as Real Estate Investment or Hotel Management.

I am willing to offer you 15% of the total sum as compensation for your assistance in transfering the fund to your base for my relocation and investment. Dear, I like honest, trust, truth, caring and respect, and I have all these qualities in me, hope you have all these qualities too? As soon as I receive your reply, I will give you more details about the deposit and my personal details as well to enable us proceed. Anticipating to hearing from you urgently.

Thanks and God bless you.
Yours Faithfully,
Mr. John Dikko N.B reply to my secured E-mail.

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Honestly. Who falls for this crap anymore?

 Posted by at 5:13 pm
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