Nigel Blackwell

No, I can’t, I usually use weasel-ly excuses. In this case I’m going to have to beg off posting anything for the next few days because I have to help rebuild a children’s playground, paint the neighbors house, and read poetry at the local library. Now, the cynical among you may be saying something about me …

In honor of the fact that I screwed up my Monday post and it’s now Tuesday, I’m going to re-designate Tuesday as the New Monday. This will, I’m sure, cause confusion in certain parts of the world, so I’d appreciate your support during this tricky transition phase. Obviously, if today is Monday (which used to …

In our world of iPhones and fast food on every corner, I think it’s difficult to appreciate historical achievements. Even in the first world countries, a hundred years ago it pretty much took all of your life just to put a meal on the table. Things weren’t much different forty years and two world wars …

Ok, let’s get this out of the way to start with: There never was an X-16 aircraft. There was a program to develop it and a mockup was constructed, but the program was cancelled before a real aircraft was built. So, the astute reader will have figured out what I’m really going to blab about, …

I’m really glad you chose to visit my blog today. Why? Because I’m dying to tell you about my new patent. Within days it will turn the technology world upside down and revolutionize almost everything we touch. Never mind the death of JFK, in years to come, people will ask each other what they were …

In my last post about the X-15 we looked at the sad end of Major Michael Adams. This time we are going to look at one of the happier stories from the X-15, Neil Armstrong. Before he signed onto the Apollo program, Neil Armstrong was both a Naval aviator (serving in Korea), and a NACA/NASA …