David Spain wrote:
Pat, you never told us you were featured on a book cover!!!

http://dreamsofspace.nfshost.com/gif...etspretend.jpg

Unlike a Borg child, my eyeglasses aren't permanently grafted onto my
head so that they hinge off to the right. ;-)
The mystery over at Scott Lowther's blog is what the relationship
between this piece of Martin Corporation artwork:
http://up-ship.com/blog/?p=4114
....and this book: http://dreamsofspace.nfshost.com/rktotm.htm is
Especially what the glowing rings on the wingtips are...they look like
some sort of gas ionization discharge, but in a vacuum?
I think the rings may represent the charge neutralizer for the exhaust
of a ion engine, but would that be glowing?
We've noticed strong resemblances between illustrations in the kid's
books and pieces of various company's space artwork, but who is copying
who is still open to question.
I think the kid's book artists saw the space artwork in magazine ads and
copied them, Scott thinks it may be the other way around.

Pat