Ha.
Holy shit this is what we’re up against? 🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/MnXxGhpDuZ
— Luke 🇨🇦🍁 (@scotchypoli) July 1, 2022
Jul 012022
This level of dumb irritates me
AARRRGH, aircraft, art, Crazy, dumbassery, Gah., Meh., news, politics, science fiction, youtube, ಠ_ಠ
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Jul 012022
So some guy makes an animation of a cartoonish aircraft. Fine, great, wonderful. But it’s getting an unreasonable amount of press from mainstream media who think that this is actually a serious “design” rather than what it is… just a cartoon.
Inside the nuclear-powered ‘flying hotel’ that can stay airborne for months
Inside giant flying luxury hotel that can stay in the air for years
Concept Video Imagines a Giant Nuclear-Powered Sky Hotel Airplane
Would You Take A Sky Cruise In A Nuclear Powered Flying Hotel?
It may or may not be good from a modeling and animation point of view, but it is clearly not something to be taken even remotely seriously from an engineering point of view. You might as well debate the merits of a spaceship that showed up in a “Far Side” comic.
This is modern “journalism.” The same trade that’s telling us that Trump “lunged” from the back of a limo and tried to yoink the steering wheel. Same people told us to believe without evidence “Russia collusion” and “Jan 6 was worse than 9-11.”
Jul 012022
Recently APR Patrons/Subscribers and I were able to successfully crowdfund the purchase of a lot off ebay that included a few folders of vintage lifting body work. The chief prize from the lot was a *giant* blueprint of a “GTV Structure,” a manned Model 176/ FDL-7 lifting body test vehicle (“GTV” was not explained, but I suspect it means something like “Glide Test Vehicle,” designed to be dropped from an NB-52). Scanning of the lot is underway; the crowdfunders now have access to the blueprint in several forms (full size, halfsize; full color, grayscale).
If you would like to help fund the acquisition and preservation of such things, please consider signing on either for the APR Patreon or the APR Monthly Historical Documents Program.
Jun 302022
I’ve just made the June 2022 rewards available for APR Patrons and Subscribers. This latest package includes:
Large format diagram: “X-15 Access Doors.” A North American Aviation diagram from 1956 showing all the openable panels on the port (left) side of the fuselage
Document: “Harpoon Coastal Defense System:” McDonnell Douglas brochure on a truck-launched anti-ship missile
Document: “Harpoon for Fast Patrol Boats:” McDonnell Douglas brochure on anti-ship missiles for small ships
Document: “Shorts Skyvan:” small brochure about the boxy cargo aircraft
Document: “VTOL Design – Turbojet Configurations” Northrop paper on VTOL fighters, mostly a historical review but with basic layouts for designs up to Mach 3
Document: Turbofan propaganda. A number of brochures and data sheets and such on turbofans and turbojets… PW4000, F100, JT9D-7R4, J57.
CAD diagram ($5 and up): IM-99B BOMARC surface to air missile general arrangement
If you would like to help fund the acquisition and preservation of such things, along with getting high quality scans for yourself, please consider signing on either for the APR Patreon or the APR Monthly Historical Documents Program. Back issues are available for purchase by patrons and subscribers.
Jun 302022
There’s no part of this that doesn’t impress me.
Jun 302022
Honestly, this would be an absolute win for *everybody.*
Jun 302022
Hmmm…
Jun 292022
A fan-made trailer for a new “Frasier” series. I’d watch.
Jun 292022
The creator is, to judge from the webcomics he puts out with a political bent, decidedly leftie. The horror comics he puts out are decidedly effective. I cannot help but think that there might be a link there.
Below are links to some of the Adam Ellis horror comics. Some good stuff. His leftie stuff… meh.
Flowers (no title seems to be given)
https://www.instagram.com/p/CePB62Ru21G/
“Dad Buries Bodies”
https://www.instagram.com/p/CWEnqSaMgj3/
“Little House In The Sea”
https://www.instagram.com/p/CXWnq9wLhs_/
“It’s The Giant Gourd, Gnarly Brown” (Charlie Brown meets HP Lovecraft)
https://www.instagram.com/p/CS2eybhL_r3/
Jun 292022
So the $600 Tomy 1/350 diecast Enterprise crowdfund has taken 22 days to get a mere 923 backers.
But Hasbro released *yesterday* a $300 Cobra “Hiss” tank crowdfund… and in one day they have over 7,550 backers.
Maybe it’s due to Hasbro having a better PR department, dunno.