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.
.... And at the time, going into a sustained climb at 45 degree's was a first-of-its-kind-achievement. Today the F-15 is atop the pyramid at raw thrust (last I'd heard....), and if it were possible to stabilize, is capable of launching vertically, engines pointed down to the ground, like a rocket ship. THAT my friends, is some thrust.
.... And at the time, going into a sustained climb at 45 degree's was a first-of-its-kind-achievement.
ReplyDeleteToday the F-15 is atop the pyramid at raw thrust (last I'd heard....), and if it were possible to stabilize, is capable of launching vertically, engines pointed down to the ground, like a rocket ship.
THAT my friends, is some thrust.
You do know that the nick name for the F-100 was "The Thud"?
ReplyDeleteNo! It was “the Hun” The F-105 was “the Thud”
DeleteHe's practicing the "Sabre Dance"....
ReplyDeleteMore like 60 degrees.
ReplyDeleteNo, the horizon isn't level (ridgeines don't point downhill).
ReplyDeleteThat's closer to a 70+° climb