Category: projects

July 2025 APR Rewards

August 1, 2025

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scottlowther

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Aircraft, APR, history, Monthly Historical Documents Program, New Products, Patreon, projects, rockets, spacecraft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
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Ebay is getting expensive

June 23, 2025

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scottlowther

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AARRRGH, Aircraft, blather, eBay, Gah, projects, ಠ_ಠ

For about 20 years I’ve been buying aerospace documentation on ebay. For a good chunk of those I’ve crowdfunded the purchases of really
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April 2025 APR rewards

May 2, 2025

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scottlowther

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Aircraft, CAD Diagrams, Monthly Historical Documents Program, Patreon, projects, rockets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.
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1/18 Project Pluto #2

January 27, 2025

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scottlowther

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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
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1/18 Project Pluto

January 18, 2025

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scottlowther

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Art, Awesomeness, blather, Crazy, Hmm…, Models, Nukes, projects, Weapons

So it has been a little bit of a while. Been busy, and lately I’ve been ill (influenza B). But the illness is
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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Aircraft, Art, CAD Diagrams, Drawings, history, Monthly Historical Documents Program, New Products, Patreon, projects, rockets, spacecraft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
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Space Sustainment & Maneuver: Advancing Strategic Superiority in Orbital Operations

August 27, 2024

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scottlowther

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Awesomeness, News, projects, rockets, spacecraft, Weapons

The USSF wants to actually be able to do their job. Could we see the return of the heady days of the Star
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Destruction of nuclear weapons with a neutrino beam

August 26, 2024

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scottlowther

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blather, Hmm…, Nukes, projects, science, Science Fiction, Weapons, youtube

A scientific paper published more than 20 years ago was recently rediscovered by the internet: Sugawara et al. 2003, “Destruction of Nuclear Bombs
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First Metal Minis

July 19, 2024

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scottlowther

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Aircraft, Art, Awesomeness, Models, New Products, projects, spacecraft

The first metal minis – 1/144 X-20, 1/285 X-20, 1/285 XF-103, 1/285 XF-108 – have been cast, cleaned and assembled. I’ve got enough
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Douglas D-3203-29

July 17, 2024

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scottlowther

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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,
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