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.
Wednesday, December 18, 2019
Soccer ball fired at 50mph from a truck moving at 50mph
In the tail of P-2 and P-3 patrol planes we had a compressed air retro cannon that was used to drop a smoke marker precisely on a marked location in the water. The air charge was calibrated to the airspeed of the airplane to cause the smoke marker to drop straight down. Made a LOT of noise when it fired also.
Interesting.
ReplyDeleteIn the tail of P-2 and P-3 patrol planes we had a compressed air retro cannon that was used to drop a smoke marker precisely on a marked location in the water. The air charge was calibrated to the airspeed of the airplane to cause the smoke marker to drop straight down. Made a LOT of noise when it fired also.
ReplyDeleteI guess that the new P-8 doesn't have one?
DeleteWhich way did it bounce?
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DeleteMr. Taxpayer here is wondering what the objective of this study was?
ReplyDeleteLikely a Mythbusters episode, so the only taxpayer money was for building, using, and then BRACing Alameda.
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