Category: Aircraft

A trio of aircraft ads

October 21, 2022

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Aircraft, Art, history, Monthly Historical Documents Program, Patreon

Three magazine advertisements from 1960, depicting the East German Type 152 jetliner (which would have been a *fantastic* jetliner in the late 1940’s),
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It’s done with a thermotrockle.

October 19, 2022

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Aircraft, Art, Awesomeness, blather, Humor, youtube

Ronald Reagan chats with a Nazi in “Desperate Journey:” The dialog from IMDB: [Major Otto Baumeister has told the captured crew
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Cops vs robots

October 19, 2022

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Aircraft, Hmm…, News, Politics, Russian Empire, Weapons, youtube

Ukrainian police use AK-47s (or maybe AK-74s, I can’t tell) to try to take out Russian anti-civilian buzz bombs. The *claim* is that
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Recent project

October 18, 2022

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Aircraft, Book 4, Books, projects, US Supersonic Bomber Projects Vol 2

Here’s a look at Book 4. Some of the diagrams I do are completed in just a few hours. Some take considerably longer…
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Russia lost another SU-34

October 18, 2022

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AARRRGH, Aircraft, Crazy, News, Politics, Russian Empire

Russian losses are expanding beyond Ukraine… 13 dead as Russian warplane crashes into apartment building near Ukraine border Russian news agencies have reported
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“US Supersonic Bomber Projects Vol 1:” exists

October 15, 2022

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Aircraft, Art, Awesomeness, Books, Drawings, history, New Products, projects, rockets, US Supersonic bomber projects Vol 1, Weapons

Photos of a physical copy, fresh from the printer, somewhere in the wilds of Britain. UK/EU buyers should start receiving them shortly, I’d
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JVX, folded

October 15, 2022

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Aircraft, Art, history, projects

A circa 1983 illustration of the Bell JVX tiltrotor concept, folded for storage aboard an aircraft carrier. The JVX would be developed into
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CAD Diagrams

October 13, 2022

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Aircraft, Art, Awesomeness, Drawings, history, Nukes, projects, rockets, spacecraft

I’m at work on a new series of CAD diagrams (see HERE for the first run) to be released as PDFs formatted for
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Man-portable anti-missile systems

October 12, 2022

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Aircraft, Awesomeness, News, rockets, Russian Empire, Weapons, youtube

Assuming the video is accurate (these days, who knows), it appears that a Ukrainian soldier swatted a Russian cruise missile on its way
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Anybody recognize this chart?

October 10, 2022

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scottlowther

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Aircraft, history, Hmm…, projects

Found in ridiculously low resolution online, this chart purports to provide data on a number of early-2000’s unmanned air vehicles. If it’s accurate,
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