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.
A clever and advanced design beaten in a competition by the English Electric Canberra which Martin got to build under license (and improve) as the B57. The B57 used the rotary bomb bay that Martin had designed for the B51.
A WWII vet I knew, Ken H, told me he got fired from his first job after the war at Martin when his design for the engine mounts was flawed and failed on a ground test run.
The guy standing to the left in that bottom photo sure could pass for a young Chuck Yeager.
ReplyDeleteYeager did test the XB-51.
DeleteYou would think that the location if the engines would encourage foreign object damage.
ReplyDeleteNose cowl is too far forward for Fod from the front gear.
DeleteOnly two were built.
ReplyDeleteA clever and advanced design beaten in a competition by the English Electric Canberra which Martin got to build under license (and improve) as the B57. The B57 used the rotary bomb bay that Martin had designed for the B51.
ReplyDeleteA WWII vet I knew, Ken H, told me he got fired from his first job after the war at Martin when his design for the engine mounts was flawed and failed on a ground test run.
ReplyDeleteThe next bomber USAF looked at performed far better.
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