Mar 122025
 

Now in the page-layout stage is my fifth book, “US Stealth Fighter Projects.” This covers a wide range of fighter aircraft designed from the early sixties to early 2000’s, including ATF and JSF programs. It should be available in a few months from Mortons.

If it does well, a Volume 2 is being considered…

 

 Posted by at 9:23 am
Mar 022025
 

Perhaps as a surprise to nobody, I’m a little late on the February rewards:

1) The end of the short month snuck up on me

2) I’m at the VERY end of finishing up a project I’ve been working on for a year and a half

3) I was about halfway through processing a big report I planned on putting into the months catalog when it dawned on me… ‘hey, haven;t I already released this?” Ayup. A big waste of time. Gah.

Anyway, the rewards are all processed except for this months CAD diagram. Currently in works.

 

 Posted by at 10:18 pm
Feb 222025
 

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 since about 1987), so I’m no expert, but it seems a lot simpler than, say, Dungeons and Dragons or Warhammer 40K.

This will be added to the next APR Patreon/subscriber catalog to be voted on for a monthly reward. If this sort of thing is of interest, please check out: 

aerospaceprojectsreview.com/monthly.htm

 Posted by at 6:12 pm
Feb 032025
 

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. originally secret, declassified report prepared for NAA describing the RCS of the B-70, and how to reduce it.

Subscribers/Patrons for the APR Monthly Historical Documents Program not only receive a monthly collection of aerospace goodies such as these, but can also pick up back issues all the way to 2014.

aerospaceprojectsreview.com/monthly.htm

 

 Posted by at 11:35 pm
Jan 272025
 

It doesn’t happen terribly often, but every now and then humor slides into aerospace concept art. I’m ~100% sure that that’s exactly what this is: Expulsive Nuclear-Electric Manned Astroliner (ENEMA). Convair/General Dynamic artist’s concept, 1960-62. The design is actually not that unlike some nuclear launch vehicle concepts of the time, with one giant nuclear engine connected to one giant spherical tank, topped by a payload… but come on, we all know what they were going for here.

Click image to go to a Flickr page with a really high rez version.

fut_v_bw_o_n (ca. 1960-62, unnumbered Convair (Astronautics) - General Dynamics photo)

 

 

 

 Posted by at 4:39 pm