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.
Those look like some kind of souped up gyro-copters. Pretty handy things, wonder why they are not more popular, have heard they are very easy to fly and about as crash proof as can be had.
It must have been a lot of fun designing aircraft in the '50s with the US military throwing money around. Nuclear powered bombers, parasite fighters, tail-sitters, and helicopters with wings.... Al_in_Ottawa
Looks like the Raider X.
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McDonnell XV-1
ReplyDeleteThose look like some kind of souped up gyro-copters. Pretty handy things, wonder why they are not more popular, have heard they are very easy to fly and about as crash proof as can be had.
ReplyDeleteSlow and limited range I remember reading. Of course I don't know if the writer knew what he was talking about. But it makes sense.
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Thunderbirds are Go!
ReplyDeleteLooks like an Osprey just had babies
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