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.
My Gramps had years of Popular Mechanics. Spent hours looking at all the futuristic illustrations imagining what type of flying saucer I'd buy when I got older.
google books has almost all of them scanned in from the beginning. huge time sink but quite enlightening, learn about the first chicago library, or how the Japanese treated the Russian prisoners from port arthur ... Dennis the librarian shusher p.s. sliced bread started in 1927
actually, this issue got me into homebuilt aircraft..that plane was the real deal..I saw one at a fly in...https://books.google.hn/books?id=R-MDAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
I know it's just an animated rendering, but I would be fascinated to see how the lift points on both the copter and the jet are configured.
ReplyDeleteHave you ever noticed that NONE, not a single thing featured in that magazine ever came to be?
ReplyDeleteWell, the title IS Popular Mechanics, not Practical Mechanics.
Deletelooks like a F-94 Starfire
ReplyDeleteMy Gramps had years of Popular Mechanics. Spent hours looking at all the futuristic illustrations imagining what type of flying saucer I'd buy when I got older.
ReplyDeletegoogle books has almost all of them scanned in from the beginning. huge time sink but quite enlightening, learn about the first chicago library, or how the Japanese treated the Russian prisoners from port arthur ...
ReplyDeleteDennis the librarian shusher
p.s. sliced bread started in 1927
actually, this issue got me into homebuilt aircraft..that plane was the real deal..I saw one at a fly in...https://books.google.hn/books?id=R-MDAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
ReplyDeleteAirships are right around corner. Says so right here in the PM ... from the '60s, '70s, '80s, ...
ReplyDeletePM: Getting the future wrong since...ever.
ReplyDeleteThey have a lower success rate than weather forecasters.