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.
Sunday, February 15, 2026
Convair XFY-1 Pogo, an experimental Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) fighter aircraft developed for the U.S. Navy in the early 1950s.
My dad bought a Revelle model of this aircraft and we sat down one Saturday and assembled it. The model "flew" in my bedroom for years suspended from the ceiling.
Those were the days, weren't they? From the time that I was able to build a model, I prolly had at least 6 of them hanging from the ceiling on fishing line.
Ryan Aeronautical (San Diego) developed the X-13 Vertijet that took off vertically and “landed” by hovering tail down and hanging on a hook beneath its nose. Glory days for R&D.
My dad bought a Revelle model of this aircraft and we sat down one Saturday and assembled it. The model "flew" in my bedroom for years suspended from the ceiling.
ReplyDeleteThose were the days, weren't they? From the time that I was able to build a model, I prolly had at least 6 of them hanging from the ceiling on fishing line.
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goblin
ReplyDeleteNope. The goblin was a parasite jet fighter.
DeleteNot much later the Brits gave us the Harrier, the first practical vtol.
ReplyDeleteAnd now we have to total POS - F-35.
DeleteCompared with the jeep it's huge.
ReplyDeleteThe wheels remind me of grocery cart casters
ReplyDeleteDid it actually fly?
ReplyDeleteNVM. It did
DeleteRyan Aeronautical (San Diego) developed the X-13 Vertijet that took off vertically and “landed” by hovering tail down and hanging on a hook beneath its nose. Glory days for R&D.
ReplyDeleteReminds me of the Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet
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