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.
Gorgeous. Many people will point to the SR-71 as Kelly Johnson's greatest achievement, but for my money the Starfighter was his masterpiece. Not the best fighter (or even the best interceptor), but there was never a cooler jet built.
Not much of a dogfighter, but it's good on the straightaways.
ReplyDeleteThe F104 Starfighter. I used to hear those babies doing sonic booms over the Mojave Desert.
ReplyDeleteGorgeous. Many people will point to the SR-71 as Kelly Johnson's greatest achievement, but for my money the Starfighter was his masterpiece. Not the best fighter (or even the best interceptor), but there was never a cooler jet built.
ReplyDeleteglide ratio of a Mosler safe with the door open.
ReplyDeleteGlide speed was 245 Kts and a 360 would chew up 15 thousand feet and you saved the gear till the flare.
DeleteThey called it "Missile with a man in it"
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