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.
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ReplyDeleteFour crewmen safely ejected from the Martin XP6M-1 after it broke up in mid air, November 1956.
ReplyDeleteFloatplane jet; a solution in search of a problem.
ReplyDeleteEvidently they were designed for, among other tasks, offensive mine-laying.
DeleteHa! That's what Congress said about the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's Research Department a few years back!
Deletehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_P6M_SeaMaster
ReplyDeleteInteresting that no one howls "AI!" at some of the more unusual aircraft or automobiles.
ReplyDeleteAI is not that clever and still to woke to come up with something that beautiful
DeleteI had a model of this plane when I was a kid. I think it was to be called the "Martin Seamaster."
ReplyDeleteStill think it one of the prettiest planes ever built.
ReplyDeleteFlying boats had a grace and beauty that few other aircraft even approached .
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