If you want to buy pretty much *anything,* you can get it from Amazon.com. And I’d sure appreciate it if you started your Amazon.com search here:
Oct 142011
Oct 132011
Gah. It shut down commenting on me again. It has been a while since it last did this; I had naively hoped that it was done with this BS. Clearly it wasn’t. Anyone have any trouble with comments, let me know.
Pat would’ve appreciated the timing on this.
Oct 122011
A ramjet intended for such aircraft as the Convair Super Hustle and Fish. MA24 was the Marquardt designation; the official USAF designation was RJ-59.
Oct 122011
Global Webcast Auction|Rocketplane Kistler, Inc
Starting: November 11, 2011 – 10:00 am CST
Ending: November 11, 2011 – 2:00 pm CST
On Behalf Of: Rocketplane Kistler, Inc.
Location: Hilton Garden Inn of Green Bay 1015 Lombardi Avenue Green Bay, WI 54304
Key Assets:
Subject to U.S. Bankruptcy Court Approval: Bulk Sale Offering of Capital Equipment, Patents, Rights, and Technology of Rocketplane Inc., an advanced developer of a fully reusable space transportation vehicle.
Somehow I don’t think that this will make my Pioneer Rocketplane stock worth a damn dime.
Oct 122011
It seems that one of the more prolific commenters on this blog may have recently died.
Patrick C. Flannery, 54, Jamestown, died Monday, Oct. 3, 2011, at his home.
Arrangements are pending with Eddy Funeral Home, Jamestown.
It’s not certain that this was necessarily *our* Pat Flannery, but the age, name and location all seem about right. If this is wrong, I’m sure Pat will pop up with some snark, and this post will be pulled. If this is right… well, no more snark from Pat, I guess.
Oct 112011
Experiencing technical difficulties of a non-computer-variety. Blogging will be slower for a little while.
Oct 092011
One of the more interesting model kits to be released in recent years was the “Famemaster” 1/100 scale model of the Saturn V. It was interesting not only because it was big, but because it was a cutaway model showing the innards of the tanks on all three stages. Assembled well, modified somewhat and properly painted, it can build up into a damn fine museum piece.
The two biggest problems with the Famemaster Saturn V were that it was expensive, and that it was not released in large numbers. A single production run a couple years back quickly vanished. At long last, though, it’s back. A number of online source have it for $300 or more, but Amazon has it for $250. It probably won’t be around all that long this time, either.
So, if’n yer interested, buy now. Feel free to use the link below…
Oct 092011
The fleabaggers in D.C. have taken their misdirected little hippie rant in yet another completely irrelevant direction: storming the National Air & Space Museum and forcing it to close its doors.
Washington’s Air & Space museum shut after protesters storm in
Gah.
Oct 082011
The American press is running with the meme that the “Occupy Wall Street” protestors are a grass-roots, spontaneously-formed, heart-felt and honest response to economic woes, that they are just like the Tea Partiers, just less “bought” by billionaires. Yeah, uh-huh.
Why yes, there is a photo.
I don’t recall too many stories about Tea Partiers taking dumps on cop cars in full daylight. I don’t recall too many stories about Tea Party events leaving behind mountains of filth.
Oct 072011
I have a brief article on the Boeing Space Freighter in the latest issue (July/August 2011) of “Horizons,” the newsletter of the Houston AIAA chapter. Free to download here: