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.
Looks like a Bell X-1 with a jet engine instead of a rocket. And apparently they are contemporaries; 1947. The Skystreak set a speed record in August broken by Yeager in October in Glamorous Glennis.
Found it! I thought it looked familiar. This museum is in my home town.
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Looks like a Bell X-1 with a jet engine instead of a rocket. And apparently they are contemporaries; 1947. The Skystreak set a speed record in August broken by Yeager in October in Glamorous Glennis.
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