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"High high high... like a rocket to the sky!" T-38A ‘The White Rocket’ in service with NASA

by Roland Sachsenhofer on October 28, 2024 · in Aviation · 13 ≡

Elegant, beautifully curved shapes with a high recognition value, a brute performance that seems to stand in fascinating contrast to its graceful appearance and a long service history in which it has made itself indispensable in many areas [...]

A hornet without its stingers: F/A-18B in action at the National Air and Space Agency NASA

by Roland Sachsenhofer on July 3, 2024 · in Aviation · 14 ≡

A fully equipped F/A-18 Hornet in civilian hands? Is there such a thing? Surprisingly, you don't have to look far to answer yes: the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has been operating a small fleet of F/A-18 Hornets [...]

Grumman X 29A, 82-003, NASA, USAF, 1984 - 1991.

by Allan J Withers on May 14, 2022 · in Aviation · 12 ≡

1/72 Hasegawa, built so long ago I don't remember when, finished in mainly MM enamels and metalizers with Future over kit decals which tended to fall apart.

Desktop BUFF/X-15

by Scott Nelson on March 24, 2022 · in Aviation · 12 ≡

Here’s a blast from the past from Atlantis, the B-52/X-15 combo kit. Originally produced by Revell, Scalemates says the mold goes back to 1954 for the B-52 and the 1:175 scale combo was first issued in 1961. I wish Atlantis reissuing [...]

NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2…

by James B Robinson on May 31, 2020 · in News · 4 ≡

“A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft is launched on NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission to the International Space Station with NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley onboard, Saturday, May 30, [...]

Failure is not an option

by Stellan Schroeder Englund on July 30, 2019 · in Space · 2 ≡

After watching so many documentaries on the Mercury and Apollo programs a man can possibly take, I kept thinking of those über nerds in similar outfits of white short sleeved shirts and black ties. Who were they, what did they do? Was it [...]

Progress on the 1/200 Saturn V Launch Umbilical Tower (LUT)

by Michael Smith on November 25, 2018 · in Space · 5 ≡

After several weeks off I finally got a day in the model workshop yesterday, which extended late into the night and several more hours this afternoon. While I made some progress on the 1/700 Hood and Arizona, the giant leap, to borrow a [...]

North American X15, 66670, NASA, Edwards Air Force Base California 1961.

by Allan J Withers on June 7, 2017 · in Aviation · 23 ≡

1/72 Monogram, I shortened the fuselage and removed some things to convert the kit back to the original X15, hinged the rudder and elevators also scribed the panel lines, finished in Revell and MM enamels with Future and Xtracrylix flat [...]