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.
In style and with a lot of nerve. The late test pilot and stunt pilot Frank Tallman, after flying one of these, paid tribute to German ace Max Immelmann, saying that any man who would do an Immelmann in an Eindecker deserved a Pour le Merite!
In style and with a lot of nerve. The late test pilot and stunt pilot Frank Tallman, after flying one of these, paid tribute to German ace Max Immelmann, saying that any man who would do an Immelmann in an Eindecker deserved a Pour le Merite!
ReplyDeleteIndeed!
DeleteHopefully that machine gun has been retrofitted with the interrupter device to prevent shooting off his own propeller.
ReplyDeleteNot retrofitted. The EI was the aircraft first fitted with Fokker's new(then) interruptor.
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