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.
I seem to remember reading somewhere that counter rotating was inefficient when the second blade was behind the first one. Must be one reason that we see examples in the world so rarely. Helicopters being an exception.
Contra rotating.
ReplyDeleteLooks like the TU-95 Bear. A Russian bomber about the same age as our B-52 and in service.
ReplyDeleteI think the Ukrainians blew up a couple of these with drones while they were on the ground reducing the number still flying.
Deleteiirc they were so loud, we could track them without radar, just sound detection
ReplyDeleteI seem to remember reading somewhere that counter rotating was inefficient when the second blade was behind the first one. Must be one reason that we see examples in the world so rarely. Helicopters being an exception.
ReplyDeleteEasy fix. Just put the second blade in front of the first one.
ReplyDeleteNow that's a hoot!
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