D’oh. My “gotta save money” goal just took some substantial hits… I bought some vintage *original* art, the *actual* paintings, on ebay.
Send help.
First: A 1980’s idea for a small unmanned hovercraft to help an F-15 lift off from a damaged runway:
Second: a 1970’s Bell concept for a C-130 with four turbojet engines as a demonstrator for the AMST program:
My credit card just went “WTF are you *doing?*”
Feel free to hit that “tip jar” or subscribe in order to do you part in enabling this sort of financially dubious aerospace history collection and preservation. What I think would be best is to scan the bejeebers out of these then donate them to a good archive or museum.
There’s another much more interesting piece I’m hoping to hear something good on regarding an offer I made.
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