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.
If you had one now, you could live-aboard and fly it around the world -- ok, if you had a rich uncle that owned an oil company.
ReplyDeleteAnd you knew a load of good mechanics.
DeleteAnd a co-pilot, and a flight engineer, and a check pilot to get you qualified. Each of which would seemingly be about 70 years old - or more!
ReplyDelete70 is the new 30
DeleteThey used to build them in the hanger I used to work in. Remarkable planes and people.
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