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.
Saturday, January 10, 2026
An XF-92 (a design forerunner of the F-106 Delta Dart and the B-58 Hustler) and a B-36 Peacemaker in a publicity photo from Convair
All that wonderful metal forming, industrial art even if it did not want to be, due at least from all the craft work and careful hand fit-up, and the work of all the engineers and draftsmen. Done writ large too.
2 of my favs
ReplyDeleteUnless my eyes are failing, I do not see a B-58. The engine at the top of the frame is the outboard jet engine of the B-36.
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ReplyDeleteThe B-36 has an astrodome for the navigator to use a sextant.
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All that wonderful metal forming, industrial art even if it did not want to be, due at least from all the craft work and careful hand fit-up, and the work of all the engineers and draftsmen. Done writ large too.
ReplyDeleteI believe the Dagger preceded the Dart, but the Dart was much better looking.
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