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July 2025 APR Rewards

August 1, 2025

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Aircraft, APR, history, Monthly Historical Documents Program, New Products, Patreon, projects, rockets, spacecraft

Rewards for July, 2025 have been released. These include: Document: “GETOL Technical Merits & Status,” General Dynamics/Convair, AD-VTOL-41, February, 1963. Report on Ground

Norspiel

February 22, 2025

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history, Hmm…, Monthly Historical Documents Program, Patreon

Now scanning: “Norspiel,” rules book for a wargame created at Northrop Aircraft in 1957. Not the usual sort of thing I go after,

The 80’s reign supreme

February 22, 2025

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AARRRGH, blather, history, Hmm…, Wisdom, youtube

Everyone is nostalgic for the days of their youth and think that “those years were the best.” But I really believe a good

Last day for eBay

February 7, 2025

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eBay, history, Models, Nukes, Science Fiction, spacecraft

Got some stuff on eBay that might be of interest, but the auctions end in less than 24 hours: Hawk Beta I

1/18 Project Pluto #2

January 27, 2025

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Aircraft, Awesomeness, history, Hmm…, Models, Nukes, projects, Weapons

I haven’t finished the first Pluto, but I decided to go ahead with an improved version anyway. Pluto ver 2 now has a

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

August 2024 APR Rewards

September 1, 2024

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Aircraft, Art, CAD Diagrams, Drawings, history, Monthly Historical Documents Program, New Products, Patreon, projects, rockets, spacecraft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

Polaris Dawn

August 26, 2024

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Awesomeness, history, News, rockets, spacecraft

A reminder that at o-dark thirty tomorrow morning, SpaceX will, hopefully, launch the first all-private manned orbital mission. It’ll be the highest humans

Douglas D-3203-29

July 17, 2024

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Aircraft, Drawings, history, Monthly Historical Documents Program, Patreon, projects

A general arrangement diagram of the Douglas Model D-3203-29. This was a modified DC-9-50, appears to be the basic design for the MD-80,

Cyanotypes: closing up shop

July 8, 2024

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Aircraft, Art, cyanotype blueprints, history, News, Nukes, projects, rockets, spacecraft

I’ve shut down production of cyanotype blueprints for the time being. What I’ve got is what there is; I’ll leave the catalog page

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July 2025 APR Rewards

Norspiel

The 80’s reign supreme

Last day for eBay

1/18 Project Pluto #2

Orion Battleship: found at last

August 2024 APR Rewards

Polaris Dawn

Douglas D-3203-29

Cyanotypes: closing up shop

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This is now the “official Unwanted Blog”

February 2026 rewards

The “Maybe” Binary

1959 Electric Space Vehicle

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