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.
When Chuck Yeager was retired and living in Grass Valley he took a short excursion to Alaska in an SR-71 out of Beale AFB. He told his friend Bart Riebe that in that one trip he burned a quarter of a million pounds of fuel.
Probably fake but well done. A beautiful design that used Russian sourced titanium during the cold war.
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When Chuck Yeager was retired and living in Grass Valley he took a short excursion to Alaska in an SR-71 out of Beale AFB. He told his friend Bart Riebe that in that one trip he burned a quarter of a million pounds of fuel.
ReplyDeleteThat design may be humanity's top achievement in flying machine artistry. It will look just as good a thousand years from today.
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