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.
Perhaps we just didn't find where it landed, or it burned up on the way back down. I don't think they even had enough delta-v onboard to reach orbit, let alone escape velocity.
One was a jet. The other was actually a rocket.
ReplyDeleteThe bottom aircraft is the X-15, a throttleable rocket plane!
ReplyDeleteAnd just how fast is the X-15 running down that runway?
ReplyDeleteLanding speed was approx 200 knots, sometimes faster.
ReplyDeleteThe X-15 was supposed to be our first spacecraft. Three were made. One supposedly shot off into space and was never recovered.
ReplyDeletePerhaps we just didn't find where it landed, or it burned up on the way back down. I don't think they even had enough delta-v onboard to reach orbit, let alone escape velocity.
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