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.
That is reminiscent of some of the contraptions built in the 1950s and 60s for the USAF and USArmy
Howard Hughes used ram jets at the rotor tips of his early helicopters. So did Stanley Hiller. Stanley was 16 and in highschool when he built his first commercially successful whoppityflopter. There is a memorial the Stanley at Livermore, CA airport.
Pre-dating Sikorsky's Sky Crane, Hughes' H-17 was a heavy lift helicopter designed to carry cargo pods or troops carriers below the fuselage. Rotor diameter of 108' withe jets at rotor tips, it was not commercially viable.
That is reminiscent of some of the contraptions built in the 1950s and 60s for the USAF and USArmy
ReplyDeleteHoward Hughes used ram jets at the rotor tips of his early helicopters. So did Stanley Hiller. Stanley was 16 and in highschool when he built his first commercially successful whoppityflopter. There is a memorial the Stanley at Livermore, CA airport.
Pre-dating Sikorsky's Sky Crane, Hughes' H-17 was a heavy lift helicopter designed to carry cargo pods or troops carriers below the fuselage. Rotor diameter of 108' withe jets at rotor tips, it was not commercially viable.
It is actually a German WW2 concept design, the Focke-Wulf Triebflügel
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