Just bought on ebay, a print of the Boeing “Space Sortie” vehicle. So much for my “maybe I should spend less in these difficult times”...

A recent ebay acquisition, this is a lithograph with a photo and color cutaway of the Vought ALVRJ demonstrator vehicle. The Advanced Low-Volume Ramjet...

I’ve just made the March 2022 rewards available for APR Patrons and Subscribers. This latest package includes: Art: A poster of the 1990’s German Sanger II two-stage-to-orbit spaceplane Document: Bell-Boeing “Pointer” brochure… full color brochure describing the proposed tiltrotor UAV Document: Cessna EV-37E STOL: 1964 presentation on battlefield recon/surveillance version of the T-37 Document: History [...]

The two aircraft are unrelated, apart from the fact that I have uploaded scans of each to the 2022-03 APR Extras folder on Dropbox for $4 and up patrons/Subscribers. The first is a brief magazine writeup showing illustrations of the Boeing and Ryan designs for the Compass Cope unmanned recon vehicles from the early 1970s; [...]

Smite’s newest ultimate skin reward – Izanami, Queen of Cards – makes its way onto Xbox today with a mixture of misdirection and panache. This is no ordinary skin – it’s what we call a “Tier 5” skin, representing the pinnacle of Smite skin design and serving as the final reward for our new Heavenly […]

Yeesh, I am *terrible* at advertising. Just realized I missed reporting on *several* months worth of rewards packages for APR patrons and Monthly Historical Documents program subscribers. December 2021 rewards: Document: “B-52G Advanced Configuration Mockup inspection,” Boeing presentation on the design of the then-new B-52G configuration Document: “Performance Potential Hydrogen Fueled, Airbreathing Cruise Aircraft, Final [...]

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Shiva, the Destroyer, arrives in Smite and brings peace to an era of feuding gods — available now for Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S. Shiva, our first Hindu God since Ganesha’s release in 2017, is an exciting addition to our roster of mythological legends. While developing Shiva, we took extra care to stay true […]

While the gaming industry has been around since Pong, the term esports wasn’t introduced until the 1990s and didn’t start gaining traction until the early 2000s. Despite being a niche subculture, it is one of the fastest-growing industries in the world. Estimated to reach $1.62 billion by 2024, the esports industry has a long history, […]

One of the odder concepts from the 1950’s was this circa 1959 Bell Aircraft concept for a nuclear powered helicopter. Very little has come out about it in the decades since; some crude schematics of how the reactor and propulsion systems would be arranged, a bit of text, and this one piece of art. Supposedly [...]

The package of Shuttle II stuff (actually, “Shuttle Evolved”) arrived today and has been scanned and uploaded to Dropbox (some 350 megabytes). Enough funders came on board to drop the per-funder price to a mere $13. The artwork was particularly nice; it was scanned in at 600 dpi and provided both as-scanned, and with some [...]

So a lot of “Shuttle II” stuff appeared on eBay for an exorbitant price. I’m becoming increasingly leery of plunking down excessive sums for this sort of thing… not only due to my own finances and the onrushing economic meltdown, but because doing so incentivizes sellers to slap even more exorbitant prices on things. But, [...]