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.
I remember reading "The Wrong Stuff" in that little bookstore in Coronado and laughing outloud as the author described crashing an early Cutlass right off the coast much to the shock and awe of the various local fish and crustaceans. It was written by John Moore and really quite funny. The Wrong Stuff: Flying on the Edge of Disaster
The engines' lack of power doomed it. The high-pressure hydraulics system gave a lot of problems, too. That enormously long nose gear was kind of weak and a hard landing could collapse it. None of the problems were unfixable, but more capable designs were in the pipeline. Changes came rapidly in those days.
Always thought the F7U was a neat looking plane and ahead of its time. A shame that it ended up a failure.
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The engines' lack of power doomed it. The high-pressure hydraulics system gave a lot of problems, too. That enormously long nose gear was kind of weak and a hard landing could collapse it. None of the problems were unfixable, but more capable designs were in the pipeline. Changes came rapidly in those days.
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