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Bell X-5

Convair MX-1964 Proposed Supersonic Bomber (B-58 Initial Studies)

21 minutes ago, Sturgeon said:

 

We've thought about that, and it's on our figurative whiteboard so to speak. Aircraft are more difficult to make convincing renders of though, and they can be more difficult to evaluate as well.

X-Plane is the best program I can think of off the top of my head to render/test aircraft, but:

• Acquiring it legally costs money
• There is a learning curve to using it. I haven't used in a while, and from what I remember it was fairly complex (it's been a few years since I used it).

As with the tank design, I think if we did a plane contest 1930s-1940s would be best. Having to design radar systems, electronics, supersonic aerodynamics, and all that would rapidly get too complex. Like the last contest, but worse.

1 hour ago, Pascal said:

Iran has world’s ‘fastest-growing church,’ despite no buildings - and it's mostly led by women.

Big if true. Would ask for an additional source besides Fox, but getting religious info out of Iran is hard so :shrug:?

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a1/Arco_sign.ogv/Arco_sign.ogv.240p.vp9.webm

Mines Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow (untranslated)

Some hypersonics related stuff found on the internet.

NASA Hypersonics Research (1970)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LISA_Akoya
 

looks like a fun time

Florida is probably going to have a bad Labor Day.

XF5F-1 and XFL-1 Spec Sheet

History of HEU Production in Russia

History of Plutonium Production in Russia

The SS-8 Controversy

Starship announcement upcoming on August 24th;

Vogtle 3 is getting closer to actually going online; https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Georgia-Power-orders-fuel-for-Vogtle-3

 

With this and Nu-Scale working on getting an SMR test plant going on INL, things are actually looking not too terrible for civilian nuclear power.

Report on plan to manage the US stockpile of enriched materials and warheads in FY2020; https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2019/07/f65/FY20SSMP.pdf

I thought Boeing was persona non grata to Canada because of the whole Bombardier issue? Guess they chucked enough money at Trudeau and friends to get back in.

P-38L Maintenance Instructions

Assault Gliders: A Reexamination

Gliders of World War 2

TM 9-227, 20mm Automatic Gun M1 and 20mm Automatic Gun AN-M2

R O M A N I A

Would be nice to at least stick them in a museum somewhere instead of turning them into razor blades. (Would be cool if an American museum got their hands on them but that won’t happen)

Archived English FFVS J22 Page

Found a powerpoint about the M-290, which is the new canister used to handle US Navy spent nuclear fuel; https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML0932/ML093200020.pdf

 

Surprised how much is declassified, but it's on the NRC site so it must be legit. They even have a picture of the overpack building! (slide 18)

not sure where else to put this

Protective Clothing and Life Support in a Desert Environment

Thermal Stress in the XM-1 in an NBC Environment