AW&ST closes KSC writing branch

David M. Palmer wrote:
Wasn't there a time when 'Aviation Leak' did more than reprint press
releases? Has that changed?


Well, they did print a whole lot of BS about "Project Aurora" back in
the 1980's...and more recently about "Blackstar":
http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/gener...s/030606p1.xml
But if you want that sort of thing, just go to Popular Science and
Popular Mechanics.
I still like the stuff about the Roswell UFO being a tiny dirigible full
of Japanese ex-POW's that one of those two unimpeachable journals
published around a decade or so back.
That's a "McHale's Navy" episode plot right there. :-D

Pat

On Nov 22, 5:37*pm, Pat Flannery wrote:

I think we may be seeing the end of all physically published magazines,


I'm not sure about "all." A couple that we get (Cooking Light and
Texas Monthly) seem to be quite robust. OTOH, PC Magazine has gone
web-only and US News & World Report is now a monthly pub.

Maybe it's the difference between sensual content and intellectual
content, not to mention advertising. The latter is better suited to
cyberspace, the former still is better experienced in what we
smilingly call the real world.

On Nov 22, 12:38*pm, (Rand Simberg)
wrote:
On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 16:47:00 GMT, in a place far, far away, Brian
Thorn made the phosphor on my monitor glow
in such a way as to indicate that:

On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 11:03:13 -0500, David Higgins
wrote:

They fired Craig Covault? *You gotta be kidding. *I've subscribed to
AW&ST for over 25 years, in large part for the space coverage. *Perhaps
it's time to let that subscription die.

I already let mine die. It was already getting close to just "Aviation
Week" and no "Space Technology". Now I'm glad I did, since they've
fired Mr. Covault.

Lately, that has been an itch of mine too although my suggestion for a
new title might be "Aviation Management Week". The number of
engineering articles has gone way down while the number of articles
for managers, stockholders, lawyers and bean counters has gone up. I
will grant that you need money to make any of this stuff go, but it is
supposed to be a "Technology" publication, not a "Financial" one.

Geez . . . now I'm thinking about letting a (very) expensive
subscription die out.

End of grump.

John

John wrote:
On Nov 22, 12:38 pm, (Rand Simberg)
wrote:

On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 16:47:00 GMT, in a place far, far away, Brian
Thorn made the phosphor on my monitor glow
in such a way as to indicate that:


On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 11:03:13 -0500, David Higgins
wrote:

They fired Craig Covault? You gotta be kidding. I've subscribed to
AW&ST for over 25 years, in large part for the space coverage. Perhaps
it's time to let that subscription die.

I already let mine die. It was already getting close to just "Aviation
Week" and no "Space Technology". Now I'm glad I did, since they've
fired Mr. Covault.


Lately, that has been an itch of mine too although my suggestion for a
new title might be "Aviation Management Week". The number of
engineering articles has gone way down while the number of articles
for managers, stockholders, lawyers and bean counters has gone up.


It has started to look like a series of press releases from the
Pentagon, airlines, and aerospace companies more than a entity unto itself.
I still remember those great hawkish ads from the Reagan era they used
to run: "F-15 Eagle: Shoots Down What's Up - Blows Up What's Down." :-D

Pat

Pat Flannery wrote:
They do have a website devoted to space news:
http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/space...?channel=space
Apparently, the ISS urine recycler still isn't working right.

Pat

So proposed new title for this mag:

Aviation Unemployment Weekly and Space Urine Recycling Technology

?

On Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:16:36 -0600, Pat Flannery
wrote:

It has started to look like a series of press releases from the
Pentagon, airlines, and aerospace companies more than a entity unto itself.
I still remember those great hawkish ads from the Reagan era they used
to run: "F-15 Eagle: Shoots Down What's Up - Blows Up What's Down." :-D

I sent off and got an off-print version of that. I had it up over my
desk for years and gave it to a co-op when I moved to the new building
with cubicles.

Mary "Always regretted that NASA wasn't allowed ordnance"
--
Mary Shafer Retired aerospace research engineer
We didn't just do weird stuff at Dryden, we wrote reports about it.
or
Visit my blog at http://thedigitalknitter.blogspot.com/

Reunite Gondwanaland (Mary Shafer) wrote:
It has started to look like a series of press releases from the
Pentagon, airlines, and aerospace companies more than a entity unto itself.
I still remember those great hawkish ads from the Reagan era they used
to run: "F-15 Eagle: Shoots Down What's Up - Blows Up What's Down." :-D


I sent off and got an off-print version of that. I had it up over my
desk for years and gave it to a co-op when I moved to the new building
with cubicles.


Another classic was the ad for the Navy version of the V-22 Osprey
dropping a torpedo that detonates on the hull of a Soviet "Typhoon"
class SSBN somewhere up in the Arctic.
One reader wrote back "You do realize that that painting implies the
start of WW III, don't you? That's not going to help your future sales
any if it occurs".
I still relish watching "Red Dawn" every time it's on TV... _THE_
perfect Reagan era movie.
Somehow or other, the God-Damned Reds managed to get around 1,000
paratrooper-filled planes into Cuba when no one was looking, and
followed that up by landing T-72 tanks up in Alaska, and having them
drive all the way down the Pacific Coast till they could take us on to
the west of the Rockies.
This makes the German "Operation Sealion" to invade England during WWII
look like a quick splash in a kid's wading pool followed by a severe
"snap their balls with the wet bath-towel fight"* by comparison.

* You probably (hopefully?) don't know what I'm talking about here,
Mary... and believe me, you don't want to get involved with something
like that via personal experience. ;-)
Picture someone hitting you on your tits with a baseball bat.
I suspect that's exactly what it would feel like, except a couple of
feet lower down.

Pat

On Nov 25, 11:09 am, David Spain wrote:

Space Urine Recycling Technology


SPURT? Sounds like a great name.

OM wrote:

envisions Mercury capsule with twin 50-cals on the nose

Has a conventional firearm been tested in space?

In sci.space.history "Reunite Gondwanaland (Mary Shafer)" wrote:
Mary "Always regretted that NASA wasn't allowed ordnance"

A detonating booster doesn't qualify as big ordnance?-)

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