Atomic Planes of the Future
I take this beautiful illustration from the French website Modelstories. You do not have to speak French to enjoy this website, it has many beautiful pictures of model airplanes. There is also sometimes the source material included.
The series on the atomic planes is inspiring.
If you want to understand the words use Google to translate, this is how make my essays into English.
posted by Latouche at Large at 9:38 PM
3 Comments:
An excellent suggestion. Machine translation is a wellspring of humor that never runs dry:
"During the Fifties and until the beginning of the Sixties atomic energy still stammering was put at all sauces by the futurologists and the engineering and design departments jointly."
I don't understand. Is that humorous?
But what of nuclear blimps? I want nuclear blimps!!:...
http://www.nwc.navy.mil/press/review/2000/spring/art5-sp0.htm
"Two other related projects were being conducted at the time of ANP’s demise. Project ROVER applied nuclear-propulsion technology to rockets capable of space travel. A second was considered by the Navy as late as 1971. In May of that year, two scientists of the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., submitted a study finding that certain lighter-than-air craft, specifically rigid airships, were perfectly suited to nuclear propulsion, since the weight problems were virtually eliminated. One proposed airship, the ZRCV, would enclose almost ten million cubic feet and carry nine air-launched bombers. This flying aircraft carrier would have no reactor-size problems, and shielding the crew would be simpler. As to radiation exposure following an accident, “airship crashes have generally been relatively leisurely affairs, so that there should be less danger to the public.”
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