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.
There is something uniquely beautiful, in an almost nature-like way, in the shape of that particular aircraft. Like the chambered nautilus. Symmetry and purpose.
There's also one in NYC at the Air & Space Museum located on the USS Intrepid aircraft carrier. I hate to admit, when I first saw it, that I had thought the Blackbird was bigger. But it's still magnificent.
Of course the best preserved one is at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center at Dulles. First plane I walked up to there. The static display at Beale is interesting to walk under.
Who took the picture?
ReplyDeleteExtremely cool image!
ReplyDeleteThere is something uniquely beautiful, in an almost nature-like way, in the shape of that particular aircraft. Like the chambered nautilus. Symmetry and purpose.
ReplyDeleteOoooh! Gotta find a bigger version. That there's a wallpaper image.
ReplyDeleteThe USAF Museum in Dayton has two of them. Just touching the plane made all the hair on my skin stand up... very electrifying experience...
ReplyDeleteThe Air and Space Museum in Nebraska has one too.
ReplyDeleteThere's also one in NYC at the Air & Space Museum located on the USS Intrepid aircraft carrier. I hate to admit, when I first saw it, that I had thought the Blackbird was bigger. But it's still magnificent.
ReplyDeleteOf course the best preserved one is at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center at Dulles. First plane I walked up to there. The static display at Beale is interesting to walk under.
ReplyDeleteIIRC, Pima Air Museum near Tucson has one outside. No engines in it, of course.
ReplyDeleteThere are at least two in Lancaster, CA.
ReplyDeleteHard to believe this beauty was designed almost 60 years ago.
ReplyDeleteHow the hell did they get that shot???
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