WHERE EAGLES FAIR

 Check out this Space 1999 fair ride! No idea where it is. Have you?

https://www.pond5.com/stock-footage/item/83213681-carnival-rocket-ship-rides-amusement-park-slow-motion-1920x1

Rebellion Own TV21!

Reading the informative Down The Tubes today it sounds like Rebellion own Project SWORD too!

C'mon Rebellion, get all the SOLO strips and TV21 stories in a new glossy volume!

Maybe even a second Annual!

What do you reckon readers?

https://downthetubes.net/rebellion-confirms-ownership-of-the-tv21-brand/ 

Sequential 21 and the Ownership of Project SWORD

This website offers some great information and opinion about the history of TV21 comic and the copyrights of the strips contained within.

There's some fascinating discussion about the ownership of Project SWORD.

Have a read and see what you think.

https://sequential21.net/about/ 

I've found more on the DowntheTubes comics blog - to follow.

Can you see a new Project SWORD Annual anytime soon?

What If?

Its always interesting to take a retrospective look at vintage magazines and books dealing with aerospace subjects, especially those which deal with 'near-future' or conceptual projects that were expected to appear within the next five to ten years of publication.

Newsstand magazines like Popular Mechanics, Aviation Week, Colliers and Air Progress all proclaimed that the next big thing would be nuclear powered aircraft, continent hopping airliners and flying cars. Whilst the vehicles may have existed on the drawing board, very few actually saw any kind of development into actual service. The artwork however, is always dynamic and sleek, with streamlined aircraft and jetstreamed spaceships depicting a gleaming future that would never arrive.

Whilst some of the craft seem entirely science fiction, some elements did find their way into production aircraft, such as the ducted fan engines and variable geometry wings.

One or two magazines show experimental aircraft such as the HL-10  and X-24B Lifting bodies in dynamic shots, speeding through space, whereas the reality is actually very different, as neither craft were ever designed to leave the upper atmosphere. 

The much more sedate and serious journals such as Aviation Week, showed a much more sober rendition of the actual craft in their own coverage. 

However, it was nice to dream about being able to board a nuclear powered airliner and streak through the heavens to the other side of the globe in a matter of hours, as opposed to chugging along n a conventional prop driven airliner and the fantastic designs really went a long way towards furthering the dream and selling magazines.

 

Purple Haze

 I've had fun re-jigging this old Johnny Lightning E-Type.

Wotan gave it me ages ago. It was taken down to the metal and was tyreless.

I opted for metallic purple .....

.... strapped on some wheels and let it go.

Watch "Zero X Assembly Procedure Reimagined! Compressed" on YouTube

I liked this! Do you?

https://youtu.be/EV4jhV96frU?feature=shared 

THINK PINK

 I saw this shocking pink Bentley Continental and thought  .....

.... are there any others!

Yep, a pink Daimler hearse!

A pink Jag!

and of course! Our favourite! This time a beautiful pedal car style toy version from 2011. I have read the blurb on this and have no idea where it is or who made it!

and for the kid who had everything, the Shama Rolls pedal car! [OK, its red]

Can you think of any others?

FAB1 FETTLED!

 Junior gave me his small Matchbox FAB1 to fettle.

It had lost some paint after Parker took Tin Tin out for a spin.

Avoiding any trouble with the Tracys, I gave it a simple new coat of shocking pink.

I tidied up the chrome work

And finally, glossed the body with PVA.

Just hope Lady Penelope is happy!