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Aerospace Projects Review May 2026 rewards

June 6, 2026

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scottlowther

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Aircraft, APR, Awesomeness, CAD Diagrams, Drawings, history, Monthly Historical Documents Program, News, projects, rockets, spacecraft

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…

Aerospace Projects Review April 2026 rewards

May 3, 2026

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scottlowther

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Aircraft, CAD Diagrams, history, Monthly Historical Documents Program, News, Nuclear Pulse Propulsion, Nukes, Patreon, projects, rockets, spacecraft

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…

April 2025 APR rewards

May 2, 2025

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Aircraft, CAD Diagrams, Monthly Historical Documents Program, Patreon, projects, rockets

Rewards for April, 2025 have been released. These include: Document: “Performance Data Report for Class VF Convoy Fighter Airplane,” Convair report from 1950. 100 pages of data (no diagrams) on what would become the XFY-1 “Pogo.” Document: “Hard Mobile Launcher” Martin Marietta brochure on the Midgetman launcher, with some bonus Martin Marietta HML info and…

January 2025 APR rewards

February 3, 2025

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scottlowther

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APR, CAD Diagrams, Monthly Historical Documents Program, Nukes, Patreon, rockets

Rewards for January 2025 have just been sent out. They include: CAD: Lockheed-Martin RATTLRShypersonic missile ART: Douglas Nike-Zeus advertising artwork Doc: 1987 Martin-Marietta “Titan II Program Familiarization – Titan II Training & Certification.” Well illustrated guide to the Titan II launch system. Doc: University of Michigan report: “The Radar Cross Section of B-70 Aircraft,” 1960.…

Orion Battleship: found at last

September 14, 2024

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Awesomeness, blather, CAD Diagrams, Drawings, history, Models, News, Nukes, Politics, rockets, spacecraft, Weapons

Rumored and discussed for years, in 1962 General Atomic reportedly built a “Corvette sized” display model of the 4,000 ton Orion spacecraft as a spacegoing battleship. This model was shown to President Kennedy, and the reported reaction was… not great. The model was described by a few who had seen it, but all evidence of…

August 2024 APR Rewards

September 1, 2024

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scottlowther

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Aircraft, Art, CAD Diagrams, Drawings, history, Monthly Historical Documents Program, New Products, Patreon, projects, rockets, spacecraft

The rewards went out this AM bright and early. They include: Diagram: Two sheets of Rocketdyne schematics for the Space Shuttle Main Engine and propulsion system Document: “B-1B New Strength for America’s Defense” An early 80’s brochure on the then-forthcoming B-1B Document: “Aerojet propulsion for Space Systems,” a very nicely illustrated booklet on the AJ10-137,…

Orion Space Battleship

January 22, 2024

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scottlowther

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APR, Awesomeness, blather, CAD Diagrams, history, Hmm…, Nuclear Pulse Propulsion, Nukes, projects, rockets, spacecraft, Weapons

With all the little publications I’ve written and illustrated, and all the years of blogging ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT political opinions and the like, it seems that at least *one* of my efforts will go down through the ages: my design for the Orion Battleship. We know to a fair certainty that such a craft was designed…

August 2023 Rewards

September 1, 2023

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scottlowther

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Aircraft, Art, CAD Diagrams, Drawings, history, Monthly Historical Documents Program, New Products, Patreon, projects, rockets, spacecraft

The rewards for August, 2023, have been released. They include: Document: Report No. ZD-013, “Preliminary Detail Specification for United States Navy Class VP Long Range Patrol Seaplane,” Convair, 1 April 1946 Document: “Space Shuttle: What Will It Do?” A 1970’s brochure describing the Shuttle, with six full-color full page illustrations Art: McDonnell-Douglas lithograph of “NASA…

Three of my books on ebay

June 6, 2023

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scottlowther

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Aircraft, B-47 and B-52 Origins and Evolution, Books, CAD Diagrams, Drawings, eBay, history, Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird Origins and Evolution, projects, Sales & Specials, US Supersonic bomber projects Vol 1

I put one copy of each of my current books on ebay. They’re all in brand-new condition, and will be signed/dated when sold. They also come with bonus 18X24-inch prints… the “SR-71” book has two prints of the SR-71, the “B-47/B-52” book has one B-47 diagram and two B-52 diagrams; “US Supersonic Bomber Projects Vol.…

US VTOL Projects #03 NOW AVAILABLE

March 28, 2023

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scottlowther

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Aircraft, Art, Awesomeness, CAD Diagrams, Drawings, history, New Products, News, Politics, US VTOL Projects

The first US Aerospace Projects in *years* is now available. Cover art was provided by Rob Parthoens, www.baroba.be US VTOL Projects #3 US VTOL Projects #3 is now available (see HERE for the entire series). Issue #2 includes: Lockheed CL-579: An optionally-manned “communications satellite” for after WWIII Vanguard Model 18: A short range passenger transport…

Aerospace Projects Review May 2026 rewards

Aerospace Projects Review April 2026 rewards

April 2025 APR rewards

January 2025 APR rewards

Orion Battleship: found at last

August 2024 APR Rewards

Orion Space Battleship

August 2023 Rewards

Three of my books on ebay

US VTOL Projects #03 NOW AVAILABLE

This is now the “official Unwanted Blog”

Parawing Deployment for Saturn I Booster Recovery

Aerospace Projects Review June 2026 Rewards

Aerospace Projects Review May 2026 rewards

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