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.
General Dynamics artwork from the 80’s depicting a Trans Atmospheric Vehicle launching from the back of a 747. The original lithograph suffered badly from decades of reddening; I used an “AI photo editor” to correct it. Sadly, the editor spat out a smaller version of the image. I used “PhotoEditorAI;” it says it supports high-rez…
I’m selling my one and only 1/72 Max Valier “Racketenschiff.” See the ebay link for info on how this might become a kit. https://www.ebay.com/itm/257288840453
Here is the one and only 1/72 “Racketenschiff,” Max Valier’s 1920’s idea for a rocket powered transatlantic passenger transport. I made this as something of an art project, to see if scaling up the original 1/288 version modeled for Fantastic Plastic would work (it does) and to see how it’d look when painted simply, with…
