Echoes in the Sky @ exoticaviation.bsky.socialさんのイラストまとめ

the model even featured nose art. a custom decal was made for "Narcissus E1" - seemingly based on "Joltin' Josie, The Pacific Pioneer", from a B-29

@Hush_Kit of course, comic books are not only for children - but the Blackbird is linked heavily with the X-Men, and it's first appearance was apparently in X-Men #104, 1977
(also the first appearance of Muir Island and the Starjammers, FWIW..)

we DO know that they survived - one account said that "[they] found the sheep browsing on its supply of hay, the duck asleep, its beak under the wing, and the rooster munching his own fleas"
(https://t.co/FL59d9JnWI)
another story said that the sheep had broken the duck's leg

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another vision from Robbert & Rudolf Das - the Dutch illustrator/futurologist twins.
from ROADS INTO THE FUTURE, 1995
the "Gaia Challenger" hydrofoil submarine carrier - with a unified US/Russian/German/French force - to deter future global conflicts
(https://t.co/Jz74Hq6ntb)

he also killed it with this 1976 Concorde brochure artwork https://t.co/EwXiMZErnd

@highway_62

@riksbar1 @JoelPostma @Balloons2Drones thanks for this - his stuff is wild. love this one with the superimposed HUD
(https://t.co/nToy32qKfL)

incredible art from Julien Lepelletier
(https://t.co/NXaPeUtQ4y)

its the early 1980s, and British Airways - buoyed by Concorde - are looking ahead, with a weekly scheduled shuttle flight to the proposed Bernard Bresslaw space station. tickets are like gold dust - only available to the public by winning one in the TV quiz show "3-2-1"
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a later electric design, with water+boron/sodium (blue) and hydrogen (yellow) fuel components, from ENERGY AND OUR FUTURE (2008)
the Das twins envisioned that the behemoth aircraft of the future would need to be amphibious - too heavy to land on wheels
(https://t.co/2Y0juHJSLp)