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.
DC-8s and Super DC-8s flew for a long time with square windows, though the did have rounded corners....used to love those big ol' windows on the Delta Super 8 that flew from Atlanta to Tampa...
I was always taught that it was the square windows that were the problem. But read the wikipedia article. The square windows were a stupid design due to stress concentrations but there were bigger problems with the design, such as punch rivet construction and stress concentrations in other areas.
Heckuva plane, except for all those fatal crashes until they got the metal fatigue issues sorted.
ReplyDeleteIt was not so much fatigue issues as the square windows caused the problem!!!grayman
DeleteNope, not the windows. Turns out it was the way they riveted the window frames to the hull that was the actual problem. Stress cracks from the holes.
DeleteDC-8s and Super DC-8s flew for a long time with square windows, though the did have rounded corners....used to love those big ol' windows on the Delta Super 8 that flew from Atlanta to Tampa...
DeleteThem engines.
ReplyDeleteThem hips.
I was always taught that it was the square windows that were the problem. But read the wikipedia article. The square windows were a stupid design due to stress concentrations but there were bigger problems with the design, such as punch rivet construction and stress concentrations in other areas.
ReplyDeleteMuch saner times, I noticed the seams in her stockings too.
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