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.
It worked great back then and it'd work today. Especially after a A 1.4 Megaton bomb launched about 250 miles above Kansas destroys most of the electronics that were not protected in the entire Continental United States.
First GPS proto-type
ReplyDeleteIt worked great back then and it'd work today. Especially after a A 1.4 Megaton bomb launched about 250 miles above Kansas destroys most of
ReplyDeletethe electronics that were not protected in the entire Continental United States.
EMP, something the USA should fear and protect our grid against before it's too late.
DeleteWe still use those in the US Navy.
ReplyDeleteCharts and compass dividers never fail.
And they don't run out of batteries.
DeleteThat plane looks like it has machine guns in the nose!
ReplyDeleteProbably Pitot tubes (i.e. the sensors to determine air speed)
DeleteLockheed Lodestar conversion by Lear; 1960 or so? Lear Seigler was a navigation instrument pioneer among other things. Very cool illustration.
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