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.
The Goshawk went up against the The Mitsubishi A5M/Type 96 (Claude) in China with disastrous results. The Type 96 was the direct ancestor of the famous Mitsubishi A6M (Zero/Zeke). Curtis got into the habit of building yesterday's aircraft and the Japanese innovated and showed them how it was done downtown.
You sir are correct. Read Out of the Crisis, by Dr. W. Edwards Deming. Americans considered Deming's approach to be defective. The Japanese considered it to be revolutionary. The rest is to be read in the history of Mitsubishi, Honda, Toyota, Datsun, etc.
Note: the Goshawk was Curtis' swan song with respect to supplying the USN with aircraft.
ReplyDeleteThe Goshawk went up against the The Mitsubishi A5M/Type 96 (Claude) in China with disastrous results. The Type 96 was the direct ancestor of the famous Mitsubishi A6M (Zero/Zeke). Curtis got into the habit of building yesterday's aircraft and the Japanese innovated and showed them how it was done downtown.
ReplyDeleteYou sir are correct. Read Out of the Crisis, by Dr. W. Edwards Deming. Americans considered Deming's approach to be defective. The Japanese considered it to be revolutionary. The rest is to be read in the history of Mitsubishi, Honda, Toyota, Datsun, etc.
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