4,000 ton Orion

A brief but well illustrated article on the 4,000 ton, 85-foot diameter
military Orion appears in the latest issue of Aerospace projects Review.

http://www.up-ship.com

The bulk of the issue is devoted to an article on Soviet jet seaplane
bomber concepts, including one nuclear-pwoered bomber...


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Scott Lowther wrote:

A brief but well illustrated article on the 4,000 ton, 85-foot diameter
military Orion appears in the latest issue of Aerospace projects Review.

http://www.up-ship.com

The bulk of the issue is devoted to an article on Soviet jet seaplane
bomber concepts, including one nuclear-pwoered bomber...


COMRADES! Once again this profit-hungry reactionary capitalist has
dipped his greedy hands into the rich design-honey that is the rightful
property of the Red Bear in his unseemly and greedy wanderings through
the thick and fertile forest of Soviet Seaplane Design Triumphs! The
much-vaunted but
Structurally-Unsound-As-The-Economic-Ideology-Of-The-Country-That-Built-It
Martin Seamaster had no choice but to fold its pathetic little wings
over its back and clap its tip floats together in shuddering fear when
confronted with the revolutionary designs proceeding like so many
Marching Hero-Soldiers from the design bureaus of the Soviet Union!
It is no wonder that the Convair Sea Dart fell flaming into San Diego
Bay when it realized that its enemy would be able to not only outrun it,
but have a far more sound understanding of the Air/Water Dialectic than
could ever be achieved by the Lippisch-Loving Lickers of the Hitlerite
Delta Design Jackboot! Not pilot induced oscillations, but
urination-inducing fear was its true downfall!
I will not even mention the "Tradewind", which is but an ill wind
blowing over the sea, a useful as a hot fart on a cold day, a little
pretender to the name of seaplane, as waterlogged and easily crushed as
the paper toy boat of the capitalist hooligan schoolboy when confronted
by the mighty products of the Beriev and Myasishchev design
bureaus....as well as the good and ideologically sound Italian Socialist
Bartini, who said "Nyet!" to Mussolini, and "Dah!" to Comrade Stalin
when it was time to conquer the wet airs over the waters!
Why were these designs never built? Why cast Red Pearls before
Capitalist Swine? Mr. and Mrs. Moscow And All The Soviets At Sea knew
that their nation was safe as long as the warmongering Pentagon clique
continued to hide cringing beneath the sea's surface in their
atom-powered murder boats, rather than try and rise above it into the
true light and mighty heights of the perfected Socialist future!

Patrovich!

On Sat, 06 Mar 2004 06:24:09 GMT, Scott Lowther
wrote:

A brief but well illustrated article on the 4,000 ton, 85-foot diameter
military Orion appears in the latest issue of Aerospace projects Review.

http://www.up-ship.com

The bulk of the issue is devoted to an article on Soviet jet seaplane
bomber concepts, including one nuclear-pwoered bomber...


At www.nuclearspace.com they have the following Orion test video:


"Movie
Project Orion: Declassified film footage showing a successful test
launch of 'Hot Rod', demonstrating the feasibility of controlled pulse
propulsion."

"Hot Rod test footage
Format: AVI
File Size: 2.1 MB
Length: 26 seconds"


http://www.nuclearspace.com/gallery.htm

Their link is broken, a direct link that works is listed
below:

http://www.nuclearspace.com/images/video/hotrod.avi



-Rusty Barton

I am interested in what public domain sources he gets these fascinating images
from ( Mr. Lowther ). The sample page is tantalizing, so many kewl things, but
cheapskate that I am, I'd rather look them up myself than pay for the
convenience of having them all in one place and annotated. Anybody got some
sources to direct me to?

MSu1049321 wrote:

I am interested in what public domain sources he gets these fascinating images
from ( Mr. Lowther ). The sample page is tantalizing, so many kewl things, but
cheapskate that I am, I'd rather look them up myself than pay for the
convenience of having them all in one place and annotated. Anybody got some
sources to direct me to?


Yeah. Buy my damned magazine. It's cheaper than getting the original
source documents.

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You know, if you want to sell a lot of these, I bet the sales floor at sci fi
conventions would be a good place. i used to buy folios of notional spacecraft
art and drawings at those. The "real thing" would probably go over as well...

MSu1049321 wrote:

You know, if you want to sell a lot of these, I bet the sales floor at sci fi
conventions would be a good place.

You'd think so. The one attempt, somewhat half-hearted, admittedly, was
not a roaring success. Oh well.

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(MSu1049321) wrote in message ...
I am interested in what public domain sources he gets these fascinating images
from ( Mr. Lowther ). The sample page is tantalizing, so many kewl things, but
cheapskate that I am, I'd rather look them up myself than pay for the
convenience of having them all in one place and annotated. Anybody got some
sources to direct me to?

Well I bought Dyson's book on Project Orion, which Mr. Lowther helped
with a great deal I believe! It should be in bigger libraries by now.

Tony Rusi wrote:

(MSu1049321) wrote in message ...
I am interested in what public domain sources he gets these fascinating images
from ( Mr. Lowther ). The sample page is tantalizing, so many kewl things, but
cheapskate that I am, I'd rather look them up myself than pay for the
convenience of having them all in one place and annotated. Anybody got some
sources to direct me to?

Well I bought Dyson's book on Project Orion, which Mr. Lowther helped
with a great deal I believe!

"A bit" would be more accurate. Mr. Dyson has doena staggering amount
of research. Considering that his father was in on Orion, that's not
really too surprising... but the list of documents he has is immense.


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