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.
Too far ahead of fly by wire to be successful and apparently impossible to escape from if things turned to custard - as your uncle discovered. Life is dangerous at the cutting edge but we push on and remain grateful for those with courage to advance us.
Had an uncle that served as a flight engineer on one of those. Died when it crashed. I believe that pretty much ended the program.
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