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.
https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-oE_Hq4acpUQ/Uzo6iDqT-OI/AAAAAAABqrw/bgUitJbZ3TU/s1600/SK1-bia.jpg is the only picture I could find of the windshield/seat in their landing configuration.
I'd hate to try and land that air machine.
ReplyDeleteThink thats why they used large grass airstrips back then.
ReplyDeleteLearn to side-slip...
ReplyDeleteup periscope !
ReplyDeleteperiscope or some optic variation is what Lindbergh used in the Spirit. Not sure, but Bee Gee racer may have used something similar.
ReplyDeleteBisnovat SK-1, a Soviet experimental high-speed aircraft.
ReplyDeleteWe're not VFR, over.
ReplyDeleteEvery flight in that thing is IFR.
DeleteIn the flush cockpit, the pilot sat on a hydraulically actuated seat which raised the hinged roof of the canopy to form a wind-shield for landing
ReplyDeleteI seem to remember seeing an old photo of Wiley Post in a "Bee Gee" aircraft that looked similar to this one.
ReplyDeleteBeeGee was stubby like a bumblebee.
DeleteBut the driver's compartment was in a similar position.
Deletehttps://3.bp.blogspot.com/-oE_Hq4acpUQ/Uzo6iDqT-OI/AAAAAAABqrw/bgUitJbZ3TU/s1600/SK1-bia.jpg is the only picture I could find of the windshield/seat in their landing configuration.
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