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November 2025 APR rewards

December 1, 2025

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Rewards for November, 2025, are now available. This include: Document: “Man Will Conquer Space Soon,” article from Collier’s magazine, March 22, 1952 Document: “Close Support Aircraft NA-452, Design/Manufacture Maximum System Effectiveness” A 1966 North American Aviation concept for something of a proto-A-10. Document: “Boeing YC-14 photographs.” 20 scans of 8.5X11 glossy photos of the prototype…

Curtiss-Wright CW-32

November 4, 2025

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Aircraft, Politics

An early post-war (November, 1946) concept for a commercial cargo transport, the four-engined Curtiss-Wright CW-32. The crew compartment would be pressurized, but not the cargo compartment. Options included raising the entire tail so that large ground vehicles could drive straight in.

1/72 Max Valier Racketenschiff

October 27, 2025

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Art, Awesomeness, Cats, history, Models, projects, rockets

My 3D printed scaleup of the model I created for Fantastic Plastic is coming along. I’m approaching this as more of an art project than engineering… partially because I think it better fits the aesthetics of a 1920’s “project” by painting it with rattlecans and pens rather than an airbrush, partially because I just want…

When did the “Star Trek” timeline diverge from ours?

September 22, 2025

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blather, history, Hmm…, Science Fiction

The people running present-day Star Trek have tried desperately to tinker with the Trek backstory so that it can be “our” future. But the past as revealed by canon Star Trek, from TOS through TNG, DS9, Voy and Ent, is clearly NOT our future. Fifty years have passed since the advent of TOS, decades which…

Ryan COIN

September 17, 2025

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Aircraft, APR, Art, history, Monthly Historical Documents Program, Patreon, projects

Ryan art of a Counter Insurgency (COIN) concept from the 1960s. This aircraft is somewhat similar to the OV-10 Bronco but with the important distinction of having a rotor for VTOL capability. For forward flight the 3-bladed rotor would largely stow within a large saucer-shaped rotor hub to decrease drag. Unfortunately, this is all I…

The limits of gloating

September 15, 2025

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AARRRGH, blather, Crazy, Dumbassery, Forward, Gah, Hmm…, News, Politics, Wisdom, ಠ_ಠ

In the wake of the Charlie Kirk assassination, a LOT of people found themselves with exciting opportunities to explore new career options after posting gleeful nonsense online that their employers didn’t like or were downright horrified by. And while I’ve long been opposed to “cancel culture,” this simply doesn’t bother me. If you found that…

Great great great grandfather

August 8, 2025

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blather, history, Hmm…

So a very distant relation in Sweden is working on fleshing out his family history and managed to get in touch with my mother regarding my mothers fathers fathers father, who left Sweden in 1852 and came to Illinois. Included in what we have so far is a translation of a letter the guy sent…

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 Effect Take off and Landing studies. Document: “Flying Cranes,” Sikorsky, 1959. Brochure describing and illustrating heavy lift helicopters built and projected. Document: “Nova and Post-Nova Propulsion Summary,” Rocketdyne presentation, 1962, describing extremely…

Class Y Courier

July 25, 2025

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Art, Awesomeness, Science Fiction, spacecraft, youtube

A fan concept of a Star Wars Y-wing but brought into the Star Trek universe as a courier. Only the one view, but to me it looks awesome. It’d make a neat model. It certainly seems to make sense from an aesthetic standpoint, looking like something that might serve the Runabout role during the TOS…

Forgotten dead, remembered again

July 17, 2025

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AARRRGH, blather, Crazy, Hmm…, Religion, ಠ_ಠ

A Tweet about the Pixar movie “Coco,” which I have not seen, got me thinking (and I think re-iterating an idea I blathered about on this blog years ago but can’t be bothered to look up again). https://x.com/cirsova/status/1945885686768230903 An interesting theology: you continue to exist in some form so long as someone remembers you, then…

November 2025 APR rewards

Curtiss-Wright CW-32

1/72 Max Valier Racketenschiff

When did the “Star Trek” timeline diverge from ours?

Ryan COIN

The limits of gloating

Great great great grandfather

July 2025 APR Rewards

Class Y Courier

Forgotten dead, remembered again

This is now the “official Unwanted Blog”

Manned Orbital Systems Concept

Orbital Propellant Depot: 1971

The Puppet Episode

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