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1948 ... stop laughing!
... actually, quite an accomplishment for just three years after WW2'
... here's the video where it doesn't crash!
1957 ... stuff of nightmares!
... DoD illustration (Gordon Phillips) of 'Project Pluto' nuclear powered ramjet. This was an idea for an unmanned 'SLAM' ( Supersonic Low Altitude Missile). After disposable booster rockets got it aloft and up to supersonic speeds an unshielded light-weight atomic reactor became the heat source for the Mach 3 ramjet. No conventional fuel was needed. Range and time aloft was virtually unlimited.
The design called for a payload of multiple atomic weapons which could be ejected at given points on various targets along the flight plan. Just the shockwave of the vehicle passing over at tree-top level at Mach 3 could kill you. Then there was the matter of that unshielded reactor irradiating and poisoning large swaths of land as it criss-crossed across the USSR. Nicknamed 'the flying crowbar' a swarm of these death birds could continue operating weeks after anyone was left to kill or care. The Pentagon abandoned plans for the locomotive sized missile after analysis concluded it was just too ... crazy!
Recently Russia has been looking into cheap and scary new ways to intimidate US and Nato; their SSC-X-9 Skyfall is a rebirth of the basic concept. Dr. Strangelove would approve!
In 1958 a science-fiction movie was made with a suspiciously similar 'monster' LINK
...shoot! Shoot! SHOOT!!!
... promo for a version of the 'Stinger' man-mounted anti-aircraft missile.
(does anyone else have recurring nightmares like this?)
... ground based laser!
... an illustration from the National Archives; selling 1980's 'Star Wars' concepts.
I'm diggin' the ink on parchment, notebooks of DaVinci treatment!
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... more B-70 magic!
... yes fans- it's more of Uncle Jim's art work!
This is another piece produced using large scale practical models. AND it is for sale (without the text) HERE; prints, posters, t-shirts, mugs and about a hundred other ways including a shower curtain!
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/b-70-head-on-swoop-james-vaughan.html
...oooo- that would be an awesome shower curtain!
...oooo- that would be an awesome shower curtain!
1964 ... 'Habu'
... long - live the legendary SR-71 'Blackbird'. Also known as 'Habu'; a nasty venomous snake. Illustration by Adam Tooby.
... next year I plan on doing some of my own illustrations of the similar F-12C; because who wouldn't want a Blackbird that was built to shoot things down?!
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...GI's in a box!
... from 'Popular Mechanics'. The writing and illustration work of Frank Tinsley.
Old Frank never had any shortage of imagination; and doing both art and text gave him enough rope to go right over the edge!
... here's a Link to an album of his work
at one of my other blogs 'X-Ray Delta One'
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(1964) ... TSR-2 headed for home!
... illustration by Ronnie Olsthdoprn LINK for TSR-2
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1960 ... oily submarines!
... still amazes me how 'artistic' advertising was in the 1950's and early 60's.
1955 ... just in time for Christmas!
... can't figure out why they are so keen on expressing the fact "it's a pistol!".
Maybe they were figuring on a lot of Don Knotts type civil defense workers
being freaked out by atomic zombies? Then they could stand their ground
and warn "I've got a personnel and area accumulated radiation exposure measuring device.
Don't come a step closer!"
Don't come a step closer!"
Note: this was the only ad in the otherwise
somber publication below.
1955 ... The Bulletin of Depressed Scientists!
... a little informative video about the clock and it's history.
1960 ... Project 'Iceworm'!
... in the end it didn't work because the ice kept moving and shifting.
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