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.
It was totally reliant on AWI (Alcohol Water Injection) Injection increasing engine mass flow and cooling to hover so it was limited by the capacity of the AWI tank to 90 seconds of vertical flight. F-35 haters seem to disregard the fact that the B model can hover with every gauge in the green until it runs out of gas.
I was in Iwakuni in 1976 when they were new. We had two crashes, one fatal. I'd pass on this one.
ReplyDeleteWe lost about one per year at my squadron. Not for me.
ReplyDeleteIt was totally reliant on AWI (Alcohol Water Injection) Injection increasing engine mass flow and cooling to hover so it was limited by the capacity of the AWI tank to 90 seconds of vertical flight. F-35 haters seem to disregard the fact that the B model can hover with every gauge in the green until it runs out of gas.
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