Dragonfly Astounding Stories

I turned another of my favorites into an Astounding Stories cover. Worked pretty well, considering it was horizontal before.

Robber Baron Dragonfly

Jamaican Ekranoplan

A concept for an island shuttle. Ekranoplans fly close to the surface, taking advantage of the Wing In Ground effect (WIG). This makes them very efficient and fast. Isn't Jamaican Airlines' livery hideous?

Italian Lounge Boat

The concept on this one is an absolutely MASSIVE flying boat with twin pontoons, and a wing so thick you can put a huge passenger lounge in it.





Here's a couple of views in the lounge, with Eileen Gray furniture, which would have been über-trendy for the time. Given the nationalism of the Twenties, they likley would have furnished it with Carlo Bugatti's stuff, but that was hideous, so we'll pretend they broke the mold.

Conning Tower

Luxury Italian Flying Boat

Some in-progress images of a fantasy Italian flying boat... I was still (and still am) learning this software, so be nice)

Vulture Ornithopter of Granbretan

From Michael Moorcock's 'Hawkmoon' novels.








A detail of wing sans cowls:

Russian Ramming Interceptor

Something I came up with as an alternate history for Russia in WWII - a rocket interceptor with tungsten steel spikes on all leading edges so they could ram their way through formations of German bombers. They were to be rail launched, and would deploy a parachute to land, after the rocket motors were spent.


Here's the emblem for a squadron of the interceptors. I think he looks a lot like William F. Buckley










Here's a cockpit view of some of the interceptors racing toward the bombers. What's not pictured here is the high-tech (for its time) vodka delivery system for the pilots.