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.
That was a spotter plane used to identify the fall of shot for the big battleship guns. The battleship would use dye markers in the salvo, and the aircraft would "spot" where they landed. Both the RTO and the pilot were trained FO's. They launched from the steam catapault on the stern of almost every large US warship built between 1917 and 1950. The last ones went out of service in the 1950's That is the grossly underpowered Chance Vought OV-2 "Kingfisher". ---Ray
I wouldn't want to fly that crate around anywhere that the Imperial Japanese Navy was flying a fighter sweep.
ReplyDeleteThat was a spotter plane used to identify the fall of shot for the big battleship guns. The battleship would use dye markers in the salvo, and the aircraft would "spot" where they landed. Both the RTO and the pilot were trained FO's. They launched from the steam catapault on the stern of almost every large US warship built between 1917 and 1950. The last ones went out of service in the 1950's That is the grossly underpowered Chance Vought OV-2 "Kingfisher". ---Ray
ReplyDeleteI'll bet there were some pucker strings working when trying to recover back aboard the ship in heavy seas!
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