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

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)

@sratoz bombers to scale. the B-25 was a couple of metres longer than the Martin B-10 at the top

got a sudden urge to re-read PLANETES, by Makoto Yukimura - no idea why..

@zbw_atc @CobraBall3 yes, difficult to beat..
(https://t.co/DXni45Spvw)

from a Concorde brochure c. 1976. the signature on the bottom-left is that of Roger Excoffon, who was the Artistic Director of Air France from 1953-1971
(https://t.co/37hZhzm4Y0)

an incredible LEGO creation - the "Tiekranoplan Heavy Assault"
(based, of course, on you-know-what..)

(by Steven W. Howard/ghalad, https://t.co/CK3scxVMaV)

@greatistheworld looks great, thanks! I was not aware of Pau 🙏

@WryCritic thanks. I was meaning more like the titles that would find themselves in the science section of mainstream book stores, like these:

(just thinking out aloud, more than anything...it may just be a case of the right proposal, to the right agent, at the right time..)

@_IanTaylor @sallyacb275