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.
Saturday, September 16, 2017
A Handley Page O/400 bomber of No. 207 Squadron being moved by a Clayton tractor at Ligescourt, 29 August 1918.
It took a large sack to get into those paper and wood airplanes, holding tanks of fuel and explosives, being pushed through thin air by internal combustion engines of questionable reliability.
It took a large sack to get into those paper and wood airplanes, holding tanks of fuel and explosives, being pushed through thin air by internal combustion engines of questionable reliability.
ReplyDeleteProbably no parachute either.
DeleteThat can't be as heavy as it looks, or it would never get off the ground!
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