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.
Friday, June 12, 2026
Northrop YB-49 42-102367 takes off from Northrop Field, Hawthorne
42-102367 was the tail number of the first Northrop YB-49 which was a modified YB-35 with eight Allison TG-180 (J35) turbojet engines instead of the original 4 propellers and radial engines. First flight was Oct 21 1947.
Going to drop the A-Bomb on those pesky aliens from Mars.
ReplyDelete- WDS
In later years I wondered, "But how much did the first bomb degrade the Martian shields? Why didn't they have a follow on strike ready?".
Delete8 burnin'
ReplyDeleteTest pilots are crazy or fearless, maybe both.
ReplyDeleteThat 42-102367, does that mean the 102,367th Airframe built in 1942? Did not think we had ramped up wartime production that fast.
ReplyDeleteOrdered (contract issued) in 1942 (no doubt modified at a later date). 102367th aircraft ordered by the then USAAF.
DeleteCan't be 1942, it never flew until after the war, not even as a re-engined B35.
ReplyDelete42-102367 was the tail number of the first Northrop YB-49 which was a modified YB-35 with eight Allison TG-180 (J35) turbojet engines instead of the original 4 propellers and radial engines.
ReplyDeleteFirst flight was Oct 21 1947.