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, January 1, 2016
A Dornier Do X in New York, 1931
The Dornier Do X was the largest, heaviest, and most powerful flying boat in the world when it was produced by the Dornier company of Germany in 1929.
The airline industry today runs on the philosophical questions, "How much misery will people endure to get from here to there? How much can we charge them? How man add-ons (like paying for every piece of luggage), paying for a cup of water, etc. can we heap on them?"
Much like the Pan Am Clippers when they came along, people dressed in suits and nice dresses for the journey.
ReplyDeleteIt looks heavy too. Proof that enough horse power can make a bulldozer fly.
ReplyDeleteLook at all the seat width & elbow room
ReplyDeleteThe airline industry today runs on the philosophical questions, "How much misery will people endure to get from here to there? How much can we charge them? How man add-ons (like paying for every piece of luggage), paying for a cup of water, etc. can we heap on them?"
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