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.
Back on the day… sigh…
ReplyDeleteAnd they are both Kelly Johnson creations...
ReplyDeleteThe X-15 was a North American product, not Lockheed.
DeleteTwo Speedsters. Starfighter almost made it to "space" and I think X-15 pilots qualified as Astronauts.
ReplyDeleteMr Johnson and team (Lockheed Skunk Works) were good but did not create the North American Aviation X-15
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