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.
Friday, November 29, 2024
How'ja like to get up and go to work in that thing every morning?
A lot of the XB-70 skin was made out of stainless steel face sheet honeycomb with stainless core that was brazed together in high temp autoclave process rather than adhesive bonded like normal honeycomb structure. They never quite worked out paint adhesion and by todays standards it would have the radar cross section of your average steel mill but by God it was fast. It's worth the trip to Wright Pat to go see the survivor.
A least they produced something, as opposed to today's bunch of federal poseurs who can make a gazillion dollars disappear while producing diddly squat.
XB-70, there's one left in the Dayton AF Museum, but it will never fly again.
ReplyDeleteA lot of the XB-70 skin was made out of stainless steel face sheet honeycomb with stainless core that was brazed together in high temp autoclave process rather than adhesive bonded like normal honeycomb structure. They never quite worked out paint adhesion and by todays standards it would have the radar cross section of your average steel mill but by God it was fast. It's worth the trip to Wright Pat to go see the survivor.
ReplyDeleteAmazing things happen when you give a bunch of engineers with slide rules a gazillion dollars.
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A least they produced something, as opposed to today's bunch of federal poseurs who can make a gazillion dollars disappear while producing diddly squat.
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