Air and Space Photos from Alternate Worlds.

[wingman]

Re Shuttle C: I'm asking question No.1: Cost per launch?

i will see if i can find out something after i get home from work.

 

[Petike]

All those aircraft for Monaco and not a single fighter devoted to the Vatican Air Force. I imagine they'd fly F-8 Crusaders.

And where, pray tell, would they take off ?

I have plans for two separate "Eurocopter Colibri as a VIP aircraft" images, for both Monaco and the Vatican.

 

[Just Leo]

And where, pray tell, would they take off ?

The Vatican aircraft carrier! VS Ark Papal.

 

[The Kiat]

The Vatican aircraft carrier! VS Ark Papal.

Naw, they can just take off from the same place the Church gets those Swiss Guardsmen.

 

[wingman]

(make up your own atl for this! 0

 

[Polish Eagle]

(make up your own atl for this! 0

Posted a longtime ago.

Wow. So it's basically two ET's cross-feeding an Ares V core, with 4 SRBs? That's an impressive concentration of pointlessness right there. Sure I think it's probably capable of about 333 metric tons to a 185x185 28.5 degree parking orbit (according to some work with Silverbird), but as that post you quoted points out (and I see it's from Ross Tierney, of the DIRECT group) that crawler ought to be collapsing under the weight, and the VAB would basically have to be rebuilt. As a very optimistic estimate of development cost, I'd say it'd cost roughly all the money in the world to build and only be worth doing when porcine independent flight becomes common.

 

[The Kiat]

 

[Krases]

Wasn't sure if this was posted yet. Might fiddle around with an Eagle 9 or something just for funsies.

 

[Krases]

AAAAAND I did it. Took about fifteen minutes from the time I clicked illustrator, to posting this now.

Edit: AAAAAND 2 minutes later I have an update. Larger second stage.

 

[LostCosmonaut]

snip

Very nice!

Incidentally, I found an old (2010) article saying that SpaceX is considering a NERVA upper stage; http://blogs.nature.com/news/2010/08/spacex_shows_some_nerva.html.

Interesting, but probably unlikely.

 

[Pipcard]

Atlas V evolution/growth options

Cutaway view:

 

[cortz#9]

German Shinden

 

[cortz#9]

Me-262 with V-tail

 

[cortz#9]

U.S. Ho-229

 

[cortz#9]

1946 Dogfight

 

[cortz#9]

I don't know anything about this Japanese aircraft, don't know what it's called, don't remember where I found it but I knew I had to share it.
Anyone here know anything about it?

 

[Just Leo]

I don't know anything about this Japanese aircraft, don't know what it's called, don't remember where I found it but I knew I had to share it.
Anyone here know anything about it?

It looks like the Japanese in 1946 had developed tacheon impulsor propulsion, but still hadn't mastered a good frameless canopy and used a notch and bead gunsight. The front half reminded me of the Bell XP-77.

 

[The Kiat]

Luft 46 always makes me want to ask one question to the creators: How's Germany handling all those Atom Bombs being dropped on it? Some people seem to forget that the Manhattan Project was a race against the Germans, and they would have been the first victims had they not fallen in May '45.

 

[Color-Copycat]

Luft '46 does not attempt to provide a plausible set of circumstances for lengthening the war until past 1946. It's sole concern is taking back-of-the-envelope aviation blueprints from the drafting table to the factory floor and eventually to the air.

Luft '46ers are gonna Luft '46.

 

[The Kiat]

If they're going to do it just for the sake of it, then I demand a P-47 equipped with AIMs! Come on, a piston-engine plane with Sidewinders or Sparrows would be cool.