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.
Igor Sikorsky ( designed 312 airplanes. invented the helicopter ) once said that airplane designers should test fly their own designs, so bad designs would eliminate bad designers
The S-55 was in fact an excellent airplane and held a number of speed, altitude, distance and weight world records. S-55s used to routinely cross the Atlantic in the 1920s, capped by a flight of 24 of them to the U. S., led by Italo Balbo. Ever since, the term "balbo" is used (at least in Europe) to denote a large formation of aircraft.
Igor Sikorsky ( designed 312 airplanes. invented the helicopter ) once said that airplane designers should test fly their own designs, so bad designs would eliminate bad designers
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The S-55 was in fact an excellent airplane and held a number of speed, altitude, distance and weight world records. S-55s used to routinely cross the Atlantic in the 1920s, capped by a flight of 24 of them to the U. S., led by Italo Balbo. Ever since, the term "balbo" is used (at least in Europe) to denote a large formation of aircraft.
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Balbo Drive in Chicago, named for Italo, was almost renamed Ida B Wells Drive.
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