December 2020 APR Rewards

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Dec 312020
 

Just released, the December 2020 rewards for APR Patrons and Subscribers. Included this month:

Diagram: a large format diagram of a Lockheed cruise missile. The designation of the missile is not given, but this looks like a SCAD design.

Document 1: Consolidated Class VB Carrier Based Bomber, from 1946

Document2: “Economic Aspects of a Reusable Single Stage To Orbit Vehicle,” a paper by Phil Bono on the ROOST launch vehicle from 1963

Document 3: “Shuttle Derived Vehicles,” a NASA-MSFC briefing to General Abrahamson from 1984

CAD Diagram: XSM-64A Navaho, the configuration that would have been built as an operational vehicle had the program gone forward

If this sort of thing is of interest, sign up either for the APR Patreon or the APR Monthly Historical Documents Program.



 Posted by at 1:30 pm

Left Wing Extremist

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Dec 302020
 

This guy *really* wanted to go to Portland, I guess.

Man climbs on wing of Alaska Airlines plane departing Las Vegas airport, takes off shoes and socks

He broke onto an airfield and somehow climbed onto the wing of a 737-900 and spent the better part of an hour wandering around before the police finally showed up. Sadly they didn’t taser him… gravity wound up doing the job. Behold:

Another view:

I wonder who he voted for???

 

 

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 Posted by at 10:40 am

Here we go…

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Dec 292020
 

Feds decline charges against officers in Tamir Rice case

In case you’ve forgotten, Rice was the kid who thought it was a good idea to wave a realistic-looking pellet gun around in public and got popped by some cops for his efforts. This was waaaaaay back in 2014, so it’s taken the Feds six years to decide that this wasn’t actually a provable Federal crime. Get ready for more reasonable discourse:

 Posted by at 4:37 pm

What Hath Covid Wrought?

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Dec 292020
 

The year of lockdowns has given a lot of people time to work on personal projects. Here’s a dubious one:

I created a floppy disk VCR that plays full length films (like garbage) with the help of a Pi and a custom x265 codec. I call it the LimaTek Diskmaster

The entire movie “Shrek” was mashed onto a single floppy. The way this was done was to reduce frame rate to four per second and resolution to 120×96. The audio… takes a bit of a hit.

 Posted by at 2:54 pm

Not sure how strictly useful it is…

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Dec 292020
 

… but damn it’s cool. A Russian machinist first makes a bolt that can take nuts with either direction of twist:

 

And then makes a matching nut with both directions of twist at once, so you can thread in and out using whatever direction you want:

Tolerances seem pretty loose, so the nut wobbles a lot. But for a first attempt, it’s certainly far better than I could do. But what could you actually *do* with such a thing? Those “threads” would be far more fragile than normal, since they come to sharp little points rather than sturdier ridges. And the structure is doubtless much weaker than a normally threaded nut and bolt. Still… seems like their aught to be some application that these would be perfect for.

 Posted by at 2:26 pm
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