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.
I suspect you're right. The SR71 was fast and economical (relatively) because of the clever bypass engines as much as anything else. The design in the pic looks old tech despite being a nice shape.
They will only show what is old news. The actual plane that resembles the artwork pictured here is now old technology, and we will likely not see it's replacement in our lifetime.
But it is flying, sure as Aesop is wrong - as always.
Just a Photoshop of the Top Gun mock-up of a wholly imaginary plane.
ReplyDeleteAnd about as accurate as the Revell Models F-19.
Find an actual pic of the black triangle that's being doing Mach 6 since before we retired the SR-71, and you'll be onto something.
I suspect you're right. The SR71 was fast and economical (relatively) because of the clever bypass engines as much as anything else. The design in the pic looks old tech despite being a nice shape.
DeleteThose inlets can’t do Mach 3
ReplyDeleteThey will only show what is old news. The actual plane that resembles the artwork pictured here is now old technology, and we will likely not see it's replacement in our lifetime.
ReplyDeleteBut it is flying, sure as Aesop is wrong - as always.
Another Brave Anonymous Sh!tposter craps his breakfast.
DeleteYou should've saved the link he posted on an earlier thread:
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-04-17-me-607-story.html
And that is the Top Gun model from the movie.
https://www.space.com/top-gun-maverick-darkstar-air-show-edwards-air-force-base
So much for the peanut gallery's uninformed opinions.
Why do they always smell like baby diapers?
OK boomer.
DeleteCould also be something to mess with the minds of the Russia/PRC leadership.
ReplyDelete"Hey, bomb?"
ReplyDeleteMore like Lone Starr.
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