@wellerstein Logo is awesome! So do you see nuclear powered drones in the future. Could be eyes in the sky 24-7?? #neverhappen
OMG. The USAF's Nuclear Energy Powered Airplane (NEPA) project (1946-1951) had an impressively cool logo.pic.twitter.com/rU4NMg4GOb
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@Casillic Well, it's been contemplated:http://www.wired.com/2012/03/secret-nuclear-drone/ …
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@wellerstein Off by a decade. The program was terminated by President Kennedy on March 28, 1961 (after expending almost $10,000,000,000). -
@SchwartzCNS My understanding is that it was only NEPA until 1951, at which point it turned into ANP?
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@wellerstein Ah, that's correct. When it became ANP, AEC got involved. Not to be outdone, Navy in '55 created program for subsonic seaplane. -
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@wellerstein I've seen drawings for that nuclear seaplane myself at the National archives.
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@wellerstein Just ran across the Phillips Atomic Energy Division logo; use of "66" logo adds brush of the familiarpic.twitter.com/uxOV7IidNP
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@Atomikrabbit@wellerstein Fox Project, Pratt & Whitney for USAF... Beryllium report coverpic.twitter.com/lMNHB38s1T
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@wellerstein that would look amazing on t-shirts.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@wellerstein@nuclear94 if I remember correctly this was Richard Feynman's idea (the plane not the logo) -
@VanceCrowe@wellerstein I'm not sure whose Idea it was. -
@nuclear94@wellerstein In his book "Surely Your Joking Mr. Feynman" he says he was paid a dollar for the patent while working at Los Alamos - End of conversation
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@wellerstein That needs to be added to the Café Press offerings!Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@wellerstein@AvHistorian illustration by me for The Aviation Historian of the planned X-6 and its nuclear enginepic.twitter.com/QBGmSHL9EE
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@wellerstein:#USAF's Nuclear Energy Powered Airplane (NEPA) project (1946-1951) had impressively cool logo pic.twitter.com/4A51Ths14C#avgeek
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