US Bomber Projects #22, US Transport Projects #09

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Sep 042019
 

US Bomber Projects #22 and Transport Projects #09 are now available.

US Bomber Projects #22

Cover art was provided by Rob Parthoens, www.baroba.be

US Bomber Projects #22 is now available (see HERE for the entire series). Issue #22 includes:

  • GD/NASA Mach 5 Cruise Waverider: A 1990’s design very much like the “Aurora”
  • NASA SR-2P Dash-On-Warning: a vertically launched ICBM carrier
  • Republic MX-773B-2: a two-stage ramjet surface-to-surface missile
  • Convair Subsonic Nuclear Carrier Based Aircraft: A miniature naval NX-2
  • Consolidated Vultee “Parallel Staged Operational Missile:” an unusual early configuration for the Atlas ICBM
  • Convair MX-1626: an early B-36-carried design leading to the B-58
  • Boeing B-52X: a trie of layouts for four-engined B-52s
  • Boeing Model 988-122/123: A highly maneuverable stealthy flying wing

USBP #22 can be downloaded as a PDF file for only $4.25:

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Don’t forget to pick up the previous issue, US Bomber Projects #21…

 

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Also available:

US Transport Projects #09

Cover art was provided by Rob Parthoens, www.baroba.be

US Transport Projects #09 is now available (see HERE for the entire series). Issue #09 includes:

  • Convair 58-9 SST: A design fora preliminary low-capacity test SST
  • Boeing Model 757-3150: An important step in the development of the 747
  • Convair Nuclear Powered GEM Aircraft Carrier: a fast long-range strike carrier
  • Aero Spacelines “Pregnant Princess:” A jet-propelled Saturn rocket carrier
  • Seversky Executive: A 1930’s design for a prop-powered “business jet”
  • Williams International V-Jet: A 1980’s concept for a small executive transport
  • Lockheed L-152-15: A very early jetliner
  • Lockheed Martin 777F-sized Hybrid Wing body: A very recent large and efficient cargo transport

USTP #09 can be downloaded as a PDF file for only $4.25:

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Don’t forget the previous issue, US Transport Projects #08…

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 Posted by at 12:11 am

Ratio

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Sep 032019
 

Dave Chappelle’s new special on Netflix is far from right wing in its message… but it’s also far from politically correct. As mentioned a few days ago, it has irritated the frak out of the professional outrage mafia. For a while there, it had a whopping *ZERO* percent score on Rotten Tomatoes. But RT has finally added the audience score, and the difference is kinda stark:

Dave Chappelle: Sticks & Stones

I can’t help but wonder, AGAIN, if any of the woketarians realize that it is they who are badly out of step with the public and humanity as a whole. I suspect, though, that many, most, perhaps effectively all of them believe that they are superior examples of the species and the rest of humanity just needs to be led like sheep to a brighter more woke dawn.

 Posted by at 5:15 pm

So much to ponder 🤡🌎

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Sep 032019
 

So a *lot* or people have been protesting in Hong Kong over their local government kowtowing to the Chinese Communist government. This is hardly surprising… people who lived *under* Communism for their entire lives protested the ChiComs in Tienanmen Square a few decades ago, so it makes sense that people who live under a kinda free market democratic system would chafe under the BS that Communist totalitarianism provides. But the Hong Kongers are apparently big fans not only of the United States, but Donald Trump in particular. Now, being fans of the US when faced with Communism makes sense, but I kinda figured the HKers would be more about “HK Nationalism,” or maybe even Britain. Bringing Trump into it is just amusement.

And it’s not surprising that people of Chinese/Hong Kong extraction around the world are also holding local protests. Australia has a lot of Chinese immigrants and their offspring; coupled with the fact that china is pretty close, it’s entirely unsurprising that there are pro-HK/Anti-ChiCom protests in Australia. But as they always do, Antifa goes and sows grade-A idiot level chaos. The video below features an Australian Jew interviewing Australian anti-Communism protestor, and then being told to leave said protest by PRO-Communist Antifa morons, because the Jew is a Nazi.

Clown world, baby. (Huh… looks like I can post emojis in the headlines. That’s an advancement of dubious value…)

I honestly wonder if these Antifi jackholes actually think that they are supporting the Hong Kongers when they show up to support Socialism and Communism.

 Posted by at 10:14 am

Possibilities of New Business Growth: Liquid Rocket Boosters

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Sep 022019
 

Continuing…

As part of Rockwells 1985 ponderings of what they could do to dredge up more business, the notion of liquid propellant rocket boosters (LRBs) were floated. The idea of LRB’s has been a part of the Shuttle program since the beginning, and ran not only until the end of the program but beyond it: the Shuttle derived SLS vehicle uses derivatives of the Shuttle solid rocket boosters, and there are those who would like to see them replaced with LRBs.

LRBs would theoretically provide improved performance due to the higher specific impulse that liquid propellants offer. Their recovery, refurbishment and reuse would also theoretically be improved; as SpaceX has shown, the refurbishment of a recovered liquid rocket booster is a far simpler operation than the refurbishment of a solid rocket booster. From Rockwell’s point of view, the LRB had one great advantage over SRBs: Rockwell was not the prime contractor for the SRB. They could be for the LRB.

Note that the illustration below seems to show existing SRB casings repurposed into LRBs. This would of course not happen. The LRBs would be relatively smooth and featureless, without the raised field joints used to bolt the several segments of the casing together (this is likely an existing pen&ink sketch of the standard STS with some changes to the business ends of the boosters). However, the use of four engines per booster and the addition of clamshell waterproof closures to keep the engines dry after splashdown was a common feature of such designs. The use of a wide range of liquid fuels was studied… hydrogen, propane, methane and kerosene being the most commonly studied. Hydrogen was probably the usual favorite due to the high performance and the fact that the launch facilities were already plumbed for hydrogen. But a hydrogen fueled LRB would be very fat compared to the standard SRB; this would put the outboard engines well outside the exhaust pass-thoughts in the launch platform, meaning substantial launch facility modification would be required.

Next up: hammerhead ETs

 Posted by at 8:50 am

Possibilities of New Business Growth: Adding extra boosters

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Sep 012019
 

Continuing…

In 1985 Rockwell gave thought to adding relatively small liquid propellant boosters to the undersides of the Orbiters wings. Even though the boosters were relatively small, with only a single RL-10 engine fed from low-density, narrow-diameter liquid hydrogen tanks. Even so, Rockwell projected an additional 15,000 pounds of payload. This would seem to require some interesting modifications to the underside of the wings… not just adding mounting hardpoints, but doors that could close over them after the boosters are jettisoned.

 

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