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.
Saw the Concorde in flight at low level over Cape Coral, FL back in the 80's. It was magnificent.
I built the Guillows balsa P40 when I was 10 and a few months later I found out I didn't glue the firewall properly. While flying it on a line the Cox 049 swiveled sideways and sawed the left wing off in flight and then the whole thing exploded. I cried like a little gurl. Hey, I spent a lot of time building that thing. You would cry too.
I'm really hoping this quiet sonic boom tech gets out of experimentation and into full commercial use fast. I'd really like to be able to cross the Pacific in 9 hours or less.
One Sunday years ago attended an annual car show near Dulles Airport. Luckily the site provided great view of Concorde's departure. A caveman could not have been more in awe of a prehistoric bird's low-level "swoop". Noisy bugger too!
Saw the Concorde in flight at low level over Cape Coral, FL back in the 80's. It was magnificent.
ReplyDeleteI built the Guillows balsa P40 when I was 10 and a few months later I found out I didn't glue the firewall properly. While flying it on a line the Cox 049 swiveled sideways and sawed the left wing off in flight and then the whole thing exploded. I cried like a little gurl. Hey, I spent a lot of time building that thing. You would cry too.
I'm really hoping this quiet sonic boom tech gets out of experimentation and into full commercial use fast. I'd really like to be able to cross the Pacific in 9 hours or less.
ReplyDeleteOne Sunday years ago attended an annual car show near Dulles Airport. Luckily the site provided great view of Concorde's departure. A caveman could not have been more in awe of a prehistoric bird's low-level "swoop". Noisy bugger too!
ReplyDeleteA great pic. Would be better if the white cliffs were the background. I'll take the Spit, thank you.
ReplyDeleteI watched a Concord climb out of Heathrow. Holy homesick angel, boy did she climb! What a rocketship.
Dam, how'd I get that wrong?????
Deletefind an aircraft tooling along in nose attitude to be very attractive. Same for a perforncaj
ReplyDeleteIt's kind of amazing those two were designed within 50 years of each other.
ReplyDeleteConcorde flew into PDX in the 80's when I was living west of Portland. It flew over my house.
ReplyDeleteCheck out the different AOA's! The little one is red lined and the big one is trying not to stall.
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