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.
Truly. I mean, think about it.. what was it, turn of the century, right? SO 125 years after they cobbled together what was a propellor powered kite essentially...To jet powered fly-by-wire computer controlled steel 'wings' that are inherently unstable, by design.
Admired, yes, amazed, maybe not, Orville died in 1948. In 1944 the last thing he sat at the controls of was a Lockheed Constellation and he lived to see he sound barrier broken by a rocket plane.
Truly. I mean, think about it.. what was it, turn of the century, right? SO 125 years after they cobbled together what was a propellor powered kite essentially...To jet powered fly-by-wire computer controlled steel 'wings' that are inherently unstable, by design.
ReplyDeleteHow many people in that community are standing out in the yard with their hand shielding the sun as they stare skyward?
ReplyDeleteI know I would be one of them.
Hell, I'm amazed and I know what was involved to build it.
ReplyDeleteAdmired, yes, amazed, maybe not, Orville died in 1948. In 1944 the last thing he sat at the controls of was a Lockheed Constellation and he lived to see he sound barrier broken by a rocket plane.
ReplyDeleteThey'd find a way to sue for patent infringement.
ReplyDeleteThey'd want to take the controls.
ReplyDeletebefore he passed away, Jack Northrup was shown the b2 model prototype, about to go into production - - - in 1981 folks. 1981.
ReplyDeletevintage technology - yep
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