Posted in Art, Motivation, Navelgazing, Uncategorized, tagged Ghost Love Score, Lepakko, nightwish, Turunen on Monday 2009.12.07 | Leave a Comment »
Sunday was the ninetysecond anniversary of Finland as an independent state.
I saw this band back in 1997/8 when they were on one of their first gigs in Helsinki. They played in a small old warehouse, Lepakko, that had been converted to a music hall by squatters years ago. And they were [...]
Posted in Architecture, industry, tagged Avanti, Canard, Piaggio, Rutan, Scaled Composites, Stall, Starship, Three Surface on Friday 2009.12.04 | Leave a Comment »
Starship (this is nice):
Avanti (this is boring and low quality):
Starship: First flight in february 1986. Powered by Pratt & Whitney PT6A-67A turboprops 895 kW each, designed by by Burt Rutan and Scaled composites, the maker of planes that fly around the world nonstop, or rocket planes that [...]
Posted in Architecture, Depot, RLV:s, Spacecraft, industry, tagged ATV, Boom, Capture, Centaur, HTV, Rendezvous, RLV on Thursday 2009.12.03 | 2 Comments »
I always had a different idea compared to the one Jon and Kirk posted, (Kirk Sorensen is now a contributor at Jon Goff’s place, I’m afraid having such top men in the same place might cause a awesomity criticality event). I assume this idea is probably found in some old NASA report from the sixties [...]
Posted in Motivation, Navelgazing, Uncategorized, tagged Birdy Nam Nam on Monday 2009.11.16 | Leave a Comment »
Note the technically correct Ekranoplan at the beginning. +1 to the makers from Gravityloss.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Armadillo, Masten, Unreasonable, x-prize on Monday 2009.11.02 | Leave a Comment »
To Armadillo, Masten Space Systems, Unreasonable Rocket, The X Prize foundation and all the people in these organization and others! I was watching the webcasts a large portion of the weekend.
A month ago, only one team, Armadillo, had ever done even a lunar lander challenge flight from one pad to another. And now there are [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged ares, Armadillo, lunar lander challenge, Masten on Wednesday 2009.10.28 | Leave a Comment »
Watching the armadillo 201 m hop
http://media.armadilloaerospace.com/2009_10_24/2009_10_24_boosted_hop.wmv
NASA’s Ares-1X
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html
and
Masten Space’s Xoie L2 flight
http://twitter.com/NGLLC09
Two of these are elegant controllable reusable vehicles, able to take off fly and land in various weather conditions and corn fields. One is not.
Posted in Motivation, engines, industry, tagged Kuznetsov, Liquid, NK-33, Rocket Engine, Russia, Turbopump on Saturday 2009.10.03 | 13 Comments »
It seems to be such a marvelous rocket engine. A high thrust to weight, high ISP high tolerance design that is still top of the line after sitting forty years in storage – it will be used for Orbital’s Taurus II as a first stage engine.
I drew a diagram on how the engine works internally.
It’s [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged carousel, diy, merry go round, pulsejet on Thursday 2009.10.01 | Leave a Comment »
Posted in Motivation, Science, Uncategorized, tagged halo, lightning, photo, rain, rainbow on Tuesday 2009.09.29 | Leave a Comment »
posted by Zafar1 @ pixdaus
Posted in Transportation, Uncategorized, tagged Åland, Blackout, Helsinki, Mariella, Steering, Stockholm, Viking Line on Saturday 2009.09.19 | Leave a Comment »
Viking Line’s Mariella passenger and car ferry was drifting without steering capability between 00:30 and 01:00 (24 hour notation) near Utö in the Gulf of Finland on saturday morning 2009-09-19. YLE and HBL have more. There apparently was some spare power on so it was not a total blackout. This made the papers while the [...]
