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.
How about the YB-49 ?
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Luft '46
Quite a few "radical" platforms were being investigated from the middle of WW II.
PRetty much, once turbines with enough power and reliability became available, became the 'Flying Wing" YB-35 and eventually the B-2
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