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…
Now scanning: “Norspiel,” rules book for a wargame created at Northrop Aircraft in 1957. Not the usual sort of thing I go after, but it seems interesting. I wasn’t able to find anything online about it other than the ebay listing, so it may be new to the wargaming world. I’m not a wargamer (not…
Everyone is nostalgic for the days of their youth and think that “those years were the best.” But I really believe a good case can be made that the 80’s and well into the 90’s were in many ways the pinnacle of our culture. Pop culture was almost undeniably at it’s zenith. We still had…
This is worth noting: Einstein Was Right – Euclid Just Captured Space-Time Warping in a Perfect Cosmic Ring Which references: Euclid: A complete Einstein ring in NGC 6505
Got some stuff on eBay that might be of interest, but the auctions end in less than 24 hours: Hawk Beta I Atomic Powered Bomber XAB-1 model kit, complete https://www.ebay.com/itm/256801825475 Diamond Select/Art Asylum NCC 1701 USS Enterprise HD Edition https://www.ebay.com/itm/256801824805 Diamond Select/Art Asylum NCC 1701 USS Enterprise “Where No Man Has Gone…
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.…
This video has been floating around twitter the last day or so, showing some streamers kicking around an android: https://x.com/FearedBuck/status/1884467606515569066 This is Not Good for several reasons: 1) While this robot is not going to gain sentience (far too simplistic for that), someday some AI likely will. And it will probably see this…
I haven’t finished the first Pluto, but I decided to go ahead with an improved version anyway. Pluto ver 2 now has a full weapons bay interior, shadow shield and air conditioning equipment. I am also going to completely revise the reactor and add booster rockets. The first one will still be completed, to…
So it has been a little bit of a while. Been busy, and lately I’ve been ill (influenza B). But the illness is finally fading and the busyness may be tapering a bit. So here’s a recent product of slow progress: the 3D printed bits of a 1/18 Project Pluto nuclear ramjet missile. Much of…
… sorta. As I’ve mentioned from time to time on my twitter (@UnwantedBlog), I’ve been helping out some friends for a bit. They’ve thanked me with a shiny new Anycubic Kobra 2 Max 3D filament printer. As such things go it’s a giant, capable of far bigger (but lower-rez) prints than my resin printer.…
