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.
South Vietnamese Air Force A-1E (AD-5) Skyraider http://www.namsouth.com/viewtopic.php?t=2316&highlight=bird+dog "We went by jeep to a nearby rice paddy where an *O-1 was stranded on a cart path with barely a foot clearance on either side of the landing gear," Youngblood recalls. "Dogood paced off the length of the path, put some gas from a tanker truck into the plane. Then he got in and in a cloud of dust flew the O-1 off the cart path."
I got my 2nd. ride in an airplane in one when I was quite young. It was a real thrill for me. I don't remember my first ride that was in a Connie coming out west from Michigan when I was 2.
It was a work horse in WW2, Korea and in the early days of Vietnam.
ReplyDeleteIt might be a good place for you to start, but I don't think that you can put pontoons on it and have enough oomf to take off.
It can be a spare to the float plane.
DeleteJust put tundra tires on it and use the beach or a cart path as the runway!
DeleteYou know, I used to think artillery officers were pudgy. After seeing this little spotter plane, not so much.
ReplyDeleteThey will stop on a dime.
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"We went by jeep to a nearby rice paddy where an *O-1 was stranded on a cart path with barely a foot clearance on either side of the landing gear," Youngblood recalls. "Dogood paced off the length of the path, put some gas from a tanker truck into the plane. Then he got in and in a cloud of dust flew the O-1 off the cart path."
I got my 2nd. ride in an airplane in one when I was quite young. It was a real thrill for me. I don't remember my first ride that was in a Connie coming out west from Michigan when I was 2.
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