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.
Cool space plane. They sure knew how to make beautiful looking flying machines, guess thats NACA form follows function and area rule at work, and those slide rules, holy moly it is still a mind bender how much practical engineering they got out if them.
John Manke
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https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/nasa-research-pilot-john-manke-with-x-24b-lifting-body-2/
My first thought would be Chuck Yeager.
ReplyDeleteAlan Sheppard?
ReplyDeleteRory Racoon. Judging by his stance, he pooped his pants.
ReplyDeleteBuck Rogers.
ReplyDeleteSteve Austin before his crash and $6M surgery.
ReplyDeleteScott Crossfield?
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ReplyDeleteRoger Ramjet....he's our man!
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Cool space plane. They sure knew how to make beautiful looking flying machines, guess thats NACA form follows function and area rule at work, and those slide rules, holy moly it is still a mind bender how much practical engineering they got out if them.
ReplyDeleteCan't remember his name but if i remember correctly, he flew the X-15
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