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.
Of course I'd want to fly that. But the poor pilot; crappy ear protection back then and that whirly thing RIGHT THERE! above their head.
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Igor Sikorsky was a helluva aircraft designer long before he perfected the helicopter.
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