And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Jack Northrup was ahead of the design game. Flight surface controls however, were not able to cope with the stresses and when the test aircraft crashed, the government ordered the scrapping of all remaining airframes. If I recall correctly, the pilot of that fated flight wasnamed Edwards. Muroc Field was renamed Edwards AFB in his honor.
You know what, wikipedia says he was the pilot. I could have sworn the Edwards museum showed him as the co-pilot and the lore I recall from all my years there was that he was the co-pilot, but that Forbes was assigned to Northrup (much like Major Bong was when he died) and the Air Force couldn't name a base after a "contractor." Good thing I'm going back there in a few weeks.
Interesting. I had no idea they had built that many.
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ReplyDeleteJack Northrup was ahead of the design game. Flight surface controls however, were not able to cope with the stresses and when the test aircraft crashed, the government ordered the scrapping of all remaining airframes. If I recall correctly, the pilot of that fated flight wasnamed Edwards. Muroc Field was renamed Edwards AFB in his honor.
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DeleteYou know what, wikipedia says he was the pilot. I could have sworn the Edwards museum showed him as the co-pilot and the lore I recall from all my years there was that he was the co-pilot, but that Forbes was assigned to Northrup (much like Major Bong was when he died) and the Air Force couldn't name a base after a "contractor." Good thing I'm going back there in a few weeks.
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