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 find it interesting that beyond the propeller being centered on the rear of the fuselage, there's apparently not a lot of technological improvement from the end of WWII. Yet, 10 years after this....Wars seem to have a way of doing that.
Money for military aircraft was extremely tight in 1933.
Te legend is that the US Army, after The Great War, decided they wanted a new rifle in .270. But it was pointed out out that there were several million rounds of 30-06 in storage, which Congress was not going to allocate the funds to replace, not during the depression.
It is sometimes hard to realize that there were only about 20 years between WWI and WWII, and the advances in military aviation and other technology in that time were still pretty amazing (think Sopwith Camel and Fokker v. Spitfire, Hurricane and ME 109). But to your point, juvat, the next 5-7 years accelerated that pace even further.
The RAF were still flying the String Bag in WWII and we still started the war in the Pacific with Brewster Buffalos although I think I recall hearing that the Russians loved them. Why don't we just gloss over the B52 still flying while the B1's are getting scrapped. And lest we forget, USS Nimitz launched 1972. One might think its getting old in the tooth but the Navy used to sharpen its teeth freshly ever few years but then the F-18 has been around since 1978.
Minus the wings it resembles Flash Gordon's 1936 movie series rocket ship he Dale and Dr. Zarkoff went to the planet Mongo in.
ReplyDeleteYou'd end up on Mongo (in the next life) if you took that contraption to war.
DeleteI find it interesting that beyond the propeller being centered on the rear of the fuselage, there's apparently not a lot of technological improvement from the end of WWII. Yet, 10 years after this....Wars seem to have a way of doing that.
ReplyDeleteMoney for military aircraft was extremely tight in 1933.
DeleteTe legend is that the US Army, after The Great War, decided they wanted a new rifle in .270. But it was pointed out out that there were several million rounds of 30-06 in storage, which Congress was not going to allocate the funds to replace, not during the depression.
Think A-10, juvat.
DeleteIt is sometimes hard to realize that there were only about 20 years between WWI and WWII, and the advances in military aviation and other technology in that time were still pretty amazing (think Sopwith Camel and Fokker v. Spitfire, Hurricane and ME 109). But to your point, juvat, the next 5-7 years accelerated that pace even further.
DeleteThe RAF were still flying the String Bag in WWII and we still started the war in the Pacific with Brewster Buffalos although I think I recall hearing that the Russians loved them. Why don't we just gloss over the B52 still flying while the B1's are getting scrapped. And lest we forget, USS Nimitz launched 1972. One might think its getting old in the tooth but the Navy used to sharpen its teeth freshly ever few years but then the F-18 has been around since 1978.
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