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A Review of Aerospike Nozzles: Current Trends in Aerospace Applications

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84 points PaulHoule | 1 comments | 26 Jun 25 15:33 UTC | HN request time: 0.214s | source
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gatkinso ◴[26 Jun 25 16:19 UTC] No.44388837[source]▶
Is that an AI generated image of the Venture Star? It's missing portside wings..
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whalesalad ◴[26 Jun 25 17:14 UTC] No.44389295[source]▶
Gotta be, the skunk logo is an approximation of the real one.
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1. PaulHoule ◴[26 Jun 25 17:29 UTC] No.44389428[source]▶
The article has a link (citation 17) to a site selling toy models of that vehicle as an image source, I can find one (fourth image in the gallery) there where it sorta looks like the wing is missing because the wing is black against a black background but it's not the same image shown in the paper:

https://fantastic-plastic.com/lockheed-martin-x-33-venturest...

The name "Venturestar" is properly rendered in that image but "NASA" and "Lockheed Martin" are thoroughly mangled the way I'd expect text to be mangled in an AI image. The image from the toy site could have been used as as reference image to create the image in the paper one way or another.