Due to repeated and ongoing issues with the original Unwanted Blog that has been running since 2008, *this* is now the official blog, and the old one is the backup blog. New posts will appear here first, there later (if at all, if the problems persist). So far this blog seems to be working. However,…
NASA-Langley film from1963 showing a 1/12 scale Saturn I model dropped from a helicopter, using a Rogallo wing for recovery. Considerable work went into using this system for S-IB recovery, landing on a runway for refurbishment and reflight. The booster would land horizontally on four skids. There’s a good chance it would not have worked,…
The June rewards were sent out July 1. If you are a subscriber or Patron, you *should* have received an email with links/passwords. Purely by chance, all of the Documents this time came from periodicals. This, so far as I can recall, hasn’t happened before in the last 12 years. Rewards this month include: Diagram:…
The May rewards were sent out on June 1; I’m delayed on putting out this announcement. If you are a subscriber or Patron, you *should* have received an email with links/passwords almost a week ago. Anyway… Rewards for May include: Diagram: “General Arrangement Basic Utility Helicopter V-107-II-25,” Boeing, 1962 Bonus: for $8+ patrons/subscribers, a cleaned-up…
April 2026 rewards have been sent to patrons/subscribers. A bit of a delay (again…). This time there were ZERO votes for the catalog items, so I selected them myself. I suspect that ONCE AGAIN something went screwy with the catalog announcements. Which is odd, since there are two wholly unrelated messaging systems. Sigh. So I…
Thanks to my patrons/subscribers, I was just able to buy from ebay a large (90″ X 48″) blueprint of the Lockheed F-94C. This will be scanned and made available as a monthly reward for patrons/subscribers. If interested, check out: https://aerospaceprojectsreview.com/monthly.htm
Rewards for February, 2025, are now available. This include: Document: “Man’s Survival In Space: Testing The Men,” Collier’s magazine, March 7, 1953 (yep, I accidentally put this one ahead of the one that was supposed to be here; will correct next month) Document: “Countermeasures Against Ramming Tactics by Enemy Aircraft (A Manual),” Army Air Forces…
A note for those who need it: science and engineering are processes that produce binary outputs. But rather than “No” or “Yes,” they produce “No” or “Maybe.” Any scientist/engineer who says “this WILL work, 100%” is lying, delusional or using shorthand for “this will probably work, until something happens that has not been accounted for.”…
A 1959 NASA illustration of a manned spacecraft using nuclear-electric propulsion, with the crew and ion engines at one end, the reactor at the other, and a long structure in between to provide separation and space for the vast radiators needed. Even though ion engines provide almost laughably weak thrust levels, the design could have…
I have long argued that the Star Trek timeline is not *our* timeline. This was obvious as far back as 68 when “Assignment Earth” aired, showing a mythical nuke-armed Sat V launching from a mythical USAF base & crashing in Asia. But there is also this: STIV had a number of events that simply…
Someone recently sold on ebay a display model of the Grumman G-12 Design 128, a single-seat derivative of the A-6A Intruder. Designed in 1963 for the US Navy, this design slimmed-down the nose of the Intruder.
