After numerous issues with the Unwanted Blog and the APR blog, causing me to not only set up this backup blog but also forcing me to give a crap about Twitter… both up-ship.com and aerospaceprojectsreview.com have vanished, “Server Not Found.” This does not seem to be a problem targeted at me in particular; the hosting…
A gearbox with a gear ratio of ten to the power of 169. The last gear will *never* turn once; it’s unlikely to turn even a detectable amount. Not just because there are probably no plans to hook the *first* gear up to a perpetual motion machine, but the fact that mo matter how fast…
The filming miniature of the USCM Dropship from “Aliens” is being auctioned off. It’s a bit incomplete and showing its age, but it’d be a hell of a thing to own. I’d love to have one in 1/35 scale to go with the APC model kit. Sigh.
This guy tells a joke, the short from of which is that learning about science in school is useless, because he didn’t become a scientist. Now it could well be that he doesn’t actually believe that; perhaps a longer video with more context has him redeem himself later. But the basic notion expressed here grates…
A Mil-8 got thwacked by a MANPAD and set alight. It flew in a controlled and sensible manner for a lot longer than I would have expected given that it seemed to be a raging inferno, but the end was kind of a bummer for the crew. I suspect the passengers were already out of…
The October 2022 rewards are available for APR Patrons and Subscribers. This latest package includes: Large format art: A Bell Aerospace painting of the D188A VTOL fighter/bomber Document: “Standard Aircraft Characteristics – Convair Class VF Seaplane Night Fighter (SKATE)” diagrams and data for seaplane jet fighter Document: “21St Century Aerospace – The 20th Century Challenge,”…
Minneapolis looks like… well, “fun” isn’t really the word. After Fentanyl Floyd died there, the protestors wanted less policing and that’s what they got. Look at the utopia that sprang up. https://twitter.com/RebsBrannon/status/1586702110678294533
Back in the Bad Old Days, a whole lot of people were trapped as serfs. While not technically slaves, they kinda were… they were legally trapped onto a particular piece of property and had to work for the landowner (generally some flavor of “nobility”). You could get in a *lot* of trouble if you just…
