The Unwanted Blog at Up-Ship.com is now the backup blog. The new *official* Unwanted Blog is here: https://unwantedblog.com
The rate of failures at the server has just become freakin’ untenable. Further backup communications at twitter.com/UnwantedBlog
New posts will continue to appear here… for as long as they can. Posts will appear at the new blog first, then here delayed a bit.
The June rewards were sent out July 1. If you are a subscriber or Patron, you *should* have received an email with links/passwords.
Purely by chance, all of the Documents this time came from periodicals. This, so far as I can recall, hasn’t happened before in the last 12 years. Rewards this month include:
Diagram: a very nice general arrangement blueprint diagram (301-10004) of the Boeing Model 301 Heavy Lift Helicopter, 1971
Document: “Can We Get To Mars?” Collier’s article from April 30, 1954. This is the last of the Collier’s “Man Will Conquer Space” articles. $10 and above patrons/subscribers also received a copy of my scan of this article as prepared in 2012.
Document: “Orbit On Demand” A series of articles from 1985 on NASA-Langley studies for fast-reaction, small reusable launch vehicles. Quite a number of layout diagrams.
Document: “Program for a Station In Space” A journal article by Lockheed detailing their concept for a rotating manned space station and the reusable winged manned logistics vehicle… from 1959. Numerous diagrams/renderings.
CAD Diagram: Burevestnik 9M730 “Skyfall” Russian reportedly nuclear powered airbreathing cruise missile
If you are interested in these, or in picking up any of the now 140+ monthly rewards, check out: https://aerospaceprojectsreview.com/monthly.htm
If you are a paid-up patron/subscriber and *didn’t* get the link this month, let me know.
The May rewards were sent out on June 1; I’m delayed on putting out this announcement. If you are a subscriber or Patron, you *should* have received an email with links/passwords almost a week ago. Anyway…
Rewards for May include:
Diagram: “General Arrangement Basic Utility Helicopter V-107-II-25,” Boeing, 1962
Bonus: for $8+ patrons/subscribers, a cleaned-up black and white version of the V-107 diagram
Document: Three Boeing Heavy Lift Helicopter brochures
Document: “The Baby Space Station,” Collier’s article from 1953-06-27
Document: “Space Shuttle Background and Status, March 1970,” NASA presentation, includes “DC-3” design
CAD Diagram: NASA-Langley Orbit-On-Demand V-2 Phase 2, small 2STO from 1985
If interested, check out: https://aerospaceprojectsreview.com/monthly.htm
If you are a paid-up patron/subscriber and *didn’t* get the link this month, let me know.
April 2026 rewards have been sent to patrons/subscribers. A bit of a delay (again…). This time there were ZERO votes for the catalog items, so I selected them myself. I suspect that ONCE AGAIN something went screwy with the catalog announcements. Which is odd, since there are two wholly unrelated messaging systems. Sigh. So I won’t be surprised if patrons/subscribers don’t get the links to the rewards. If that’s you, let me know.
Anyway, April 2026 provides:
Diagram: B-52G Cockpit Configuration
Document: B-2 rollout brochure
Document: Convair SOR 182 (C-141 competition) diagrams and information
Document: Collier’s 1953-03-14 “Man’s Survival In Space: Emergency!”
CAD diagram: Bond/Martin worldships
If interested, check out: https://aerospaceprojectsreview.com/monthly.htm
If you are a paid-up patron/subscriber and *didn’t* get the link this month, let me know.
Thanks to my patrons/subscribers, I was just able to buy from ebay a large (90″ X 48″) blueprint of the Lockheed F-94C. This will be scanned and made available as a monthly reward for patrons/subscribers. If interested, check out: aerospaceprojectsreview.com/monthly.htm
Rewards for February, 2025, are now available. This include:
Document: “Man’s Survival In Space: Testing The Men,” Collier’s magazine, March 7, 1953 (yep, I accidentally put this one ahead of the one that was supposed to be here; will correct next month)
Document: “Countermeasures Against Ramming Tactics by Enemy Aircraft (A Manual),” Army Air Forces Board, 3 April 1945
Document: “Conceptual Design Study Report Hypersonic Ramjet Research Engine Project,” Marquardt Corporation, 28 Feb 1966
Diagram: 3 Northrop XB-35 diagrams
In lieu of the traditional CAD diagram, for this month $5 Patrons/subscribers receive a high-rez 1990’s NASA rendering of a proposed Saturn V based HLLV; $8+ Patrons/Subscribers get the art as well as “Preliminary Specifications for Manned Satellite Capsule,” NASA, Oct 1958.
A note for those who need it: science and engineering are processes that produce binary outputs. But rather than “No” or “Yes,” they produce “No” or “Maybe.” Any scientist/engineer who says “this WILL work, 100%” is lying, delusional or using shorthand for “this will probably work, until something happens that has not been accounted for.” The math can always say with certainty that something will fail. A railroad bridge made out of moldy string cheese in place of the steel the bridge was designed for WILL fail. But the best design, the best theory, will also fail if it fails to account for the totality of reality. And we don’t yet have a grasp of the totality of reality. This is why STEM isn’t for everyone. It does not provide validation. You must come to terms with not just being wrong, but trying to find out where, how and why you’re wrong *before* you get people killed.
A 1959 NASA illustration of a manned spacecraft using nuclear-electric propulsion, with the crew and ion engines at one end, the reactor at the other, and a long structure in between to provide separation and space for the vast radiators needed. Even though ion engines provide almost laughably weak thrust levels, the design could have benefited greatly from turning those engines around to *pull* the vehicle rather than *push* it. That would turn the long spine from being in compression to being in tension. This would allow it to not only be lighter in mass but more stable.
I have long argued that the Star Trek timeline is not *our* timeline. This was obvious as far back as 68 when “Assignment Earth” aired, showing a mythical nuke-armed Sat V launching from a mythical USAF base & crashing in Asia.
But there is also this:
STIV had a number of events that simply could not have been ignored:
1)Soviet spy on CVN captured, injured, stolen from hospital.
2) One of the kidnappers magically restores a kidney.
3)The spy leaves behind incredibly advanced tech, including a DEW.
4)One of the kidnappers involved in imparting “transparent aluminum.”
5)Strange tales from Golden Gate Park
6)Likely tracking data – seismic if nothing else – of a gigantic hypersonic vehicle (Mach 20 or so) from San Fran to Bering Sea
7)Stories from crazed (Norwegian? Russian?) whalers
Most of this would make the news. People would put the pieces together. DARPA would certainly put the pieces together. Those bits of tech left behind would be analyzed and would lead to rapid advances in power, materials and likely DEWs. Perhaps in the 90’s, certainly in the early 2000’s, the US would produce proto “disruptors” or proto “phasers” based on the Klingon weapon. Likely the size of buildings but able to easily swat incoming missiles. The tech wouldn’t help with energy production, but would with storage; batteries would be *fabulously* better.
All of this would on the surface be working from the assumption that DARPA, the FBI and CIA believe that the Klingon tech was left behind by a Soviet spy, thus believing that the Soviets not only had access to this tech, but had a *lot* of it. Reverse engineering would thus be done at a fevered pace. Would DARPA know the tech was alien? Quite possibly. Because DARPA would *know* aliens existed. Because the US captured a trio of Ferengi in 1947 and examined them and their technology before they escaped through a nuclear blast during an above-ground Nevada test (note: no such tests were carried out in *our* timeline, so the Trek timeline had already diverged prior to that).
The old lady in the hospital would be tested up one side and down the other; traces of McCoys pill would doubtless be found in her blood. Medical advances would follow. By the 2020’s, that world would be vastly different from ours. There’s also the fact of Khan in the 90’s, a historical blip oddly missing from *our* timeline.
Someone recently sold on ebay a display model of the Grumman G-12 Design 128, a single-seat derivative of the A-6A Intruder. Designed in 1963 for the US Navy, this design slimmed-down the nose of the Intruder.
General Dynamics artwork from the 80’s depicting a Trans Atmospheric Vehicle launching from the back of a 747. The original lithograph suffered badly from decades of reddening; I used an “AI photo editor” to correct it. Sadly, the editor spat out a smaller version of the image. I used “PhotoEditorAI;” it says it supports high-rez downloads, but that option was not visible (or was well hidden). In any event, both versions of the art (shown here at 35% scale) have been put in the 2026-01 APR Extras Dropbox folder for APR Patrons/subscribers.
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