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.
Anyone over 5'9" won't fit in the cockpit.
ReplyDelete"don't give me a p-38
ReplyDeleteIt'll stall out and spin
and soon auger in
don't give me a p-38."
They say if you don't get the props sync'd it'll give you a massive headache.
(Still my all time favourite!)
Notice the blacked-out, non reflective panels facing the pilot, so that his retinas are not scorched by the sun.
ReplyDeleteMy Dad said the counterrotating props made for a stable gun platform but the cockpit heat was terrible since you weren't behind an engine.
ReplyDeleteHe also said he falsified his medical records to make himself 1" shorter so he could go into fighters not bombers.
Don in Oregon
Had a wheel not a "joy stick"..No pilot worth his salt wanted a "wheel". I'll take a "Jug" thank you.
ReplyDeleteNot a Jug. A Mustang. Pure piston engine perfection.
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