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.
These left the inventory by the time I had arrived but there were still some pilots around who had flown them hanging around. Y'all know how these aircraft have official names, ie. Thunderchief, Nighthawk, Lancer etc and then there's the name that they are known by, by the guys (gals too now) that fly them? Names like Thud, Wobblin Gobblin, and the Bone. Well, meet the "Supersonic Disintegrator". There's some footage floating around somewhere that's got the results of what happens when you're flying Mach-Mother on the deck and one of the outboard engines stall. You can't retard the opposite throttle fast enough and the asymetrics are QUITE spectacular. Confetti strewn for 3 miles. Still, I'd of flown it in a heartbeat. There's just something about driving around with your hair on fire.....
Poetry in the air!
ReplyDeleteRumor is they never got the pedal to the metal for some reason.
ReplyDeleteA sweet aircraft that wasn't allowed to use it's full potential in war. 118 produced by Convair.
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These left the inventory by the time I had arrived but there were still some pilots around who had flown them hanging around. Y'all know how these aircraft have official names, ie. Thunderchief, Nighthawk, Lancer etc and then there's the name that they are known by, by the guys (gals too now) that fly them? Names like Thud, Wobblin Gobblin, and the Bone. Well, meet the "Supersonic Disintegrator". There's some footage floating around somewhere that's got the results of what happens when you're flying Mach-Mother on the deck and one of the outboard engines stall. You can't retard the opposite throttle fast enough and the asymetrics are QUITE spectacular. Confetti strewn for 3 miles. Still, I'd of flown it in a heartbeat. There's just something about driving around with your hair on fire.....
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