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.
Monday, October 11, 2021
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McDonnell XF-85 Goblin is an American prototype fighter aircraft conceived during World War II by McDonnell Aircraft. It was intended to deploy from the bomb bay of the giant Convair B-36 bomber as a parasite fighter.
The canopy is shattered. This is the August 23, 1948 flight by test pilot Edwin Foresman Schoch. while attempting to rehook to the B-29 mother ship, turbulence caused him to hit the trapeze, almost killing him. He landed on the dry lake at Muroc. That could be him standing at the nose. He was killed in 1951 when a Banshee shed its tail.
Interesting idea, but didn't work. So the USAF modified the wingtips of some B-36s to allow the wingtips of specific F-84s to mate, including air lines and fuel lines. So the F-84s would dock in air once everyone was flying, and be towed, and could actually provide some power to the B-36.
The canopy is shattered. This is the August 23, 1948 flight by test pilot Edwin Foresman Schoch.
ReplyDeletewhile attempting to rehook to the B-29 mother ship, turbulence caused him to hit the trapeze, almost killing him. He landed on the dry lake at Muroc.
That could be him standing at the nose.
He was killed in 1951 when a Banshee shed its tail.
He died on his birthday exactly 35 years old.
DeleteInteresting idea, but didn't work. So the USAF modified the wingtips of some B-36s to allow the wingtips of specific F-84s to mate, including air lines and fuel lines. So the F-84s would dock in air once everyone was flying, and be towed, and could actually provide some power to the B-36.
ReplyDeleteIt kind of worked.