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There are other books which would be (and would have been) better on their own without trying to make a movie or mini-series. Frank Herbert's Dune and James White's The Silent Stars Go By are two that come to mind.

If Mark's topic caught your attention then you may already know about this one but I'm suggesting it anyway. Check out the movie Wind. Information here www.imdb.com/title/tt0105824/ Sure, the story is predictable but turn down the volume and watch the sailing sequences and the impressive...

The darker version does look better. Stargazer, getting rotor blades may not be all that difficult. Look back to some of the old helicopter kits from the 50s and 60s (back when models were considered toys) and you should be able to find some oversized flat blades that could be trimmed to the...

I believe the pic posted by Overscan is the positive image. Look at the intake and exhaust in the two pictures. I'd like to say that I noticed the intake first, but actually, I noticed the stand. That is an old Aurora kit of the T-37 which has been modified. Most - but not all - of the Aurora...

Thanks. I had not made a connection to the Orion concept.

This concept is so outrageous that I can only think to post it here. This is from the book America's Mightiest Missile by Lloyd Mallan. Does that craft have enough volume to hold the fuel needed to keep that big engine firing? And, what would the sound be like? Edit - I was too quick to hit...

With the exception of the Northrop concept (Which is from Aviation Week), these are from the book America's Mightiest Missile by LLoyd Mallan. While this book does not use the SLOMAR designation, a few of the illustrations are the same. According to this book - but it seems to have been geared...

I'd say that the inclusion of a Darkstar drawing there means nothing more than the fact that they have an image of the thing that is available for public viewing and for use in Air Force publications and media. These pages look to be the Air Force's clearing house for clip-art. At first I...

I think we are pretty much in agreement here. The phrase that eluded me earlier was 'element of chance.' I used that exaggerated example to suggest that the element of chance cannot be ignored when exploring 'what if' questions or even in exploring history in general. We may know the events that...

This discussion has gotten me thinking. (Big mistake!) Are some of the arguments and ideas being presented here too simplistic? I mean, is history a simple land-marked time-line which avails itself to such easy plotting of what-if thoughts? Or, is history a rich tapestry made up of many layers...

Hose clamps could be used on round fuselages, but using them is tricky. Don't use the clamp in direct contact with the parts. Use wide strips cut from sheet plastic between the parts and two or three clamps. These strips help distribute the pressure - especially where the metal strap lifts to...

Yes, the glue does become brittle with age and so does the plastic. One of the secrets to working with plastic model glue is to apply pressure when joining parts. (Except for the small detail parts which would break.) The glue melts the plastic but without the pressure what you get when it...

The top one - the blue one - is the image I was talking about. I was going to scan the image to post but I see you've found a copy. The robot in this story is not constrained by Asimov's Three Laws but in a way this story would have fit nicely into Asimov's storyverse. The man is a member of...

I've loved this picture since I first saw it back in my early teens. This was painted by Ed Valigursky - for Doubleday's Science Fiction Book Club and used in one of their monthly fliers. According to Infinite Worlds: The Fantastic Visions of Science Fiction Art, The Wonderland Press, 1997(?)...

An old Grumman ad on a page in my scrap file. Source - long forgotten at this time.

Here is a different concept for the Orbital Launch Facility. This is from Astronautics & Aerospace Engineering (I can't make out the date in my photo copy of the article - March of either 1963 or 1968 and I'm leaning toward 1968. The article was copied from a bound volume of the magazine.)

Another roof-top airport idea - from back in 1967.

Of course, there's the double offset cockpit in the XB-42 and XB-43. Source - that old U.S. Bombers book from Aero Publishers.

Just to give a heads-up that this book is currently hitting the shelves. US NAVY UAVs in Action Here's Squadron's info page on it http://www.squadronsignalpublications.com/ItemDetails.asp?cat1=books&cat2=signalpub&cat3=inAction&cat4=aircraftInAction&cat5=postww2book&item=SS1217 Mike