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, December 8, 2018
Hughes HK-1 Flying Boat (Spruce Goose) under construction Terminal Island, Los Angeles Harbor, circa 1946.
Say what you will, it flew.
ReplyDeleteIt was pretty amazing. It's now up at Evergreen in Oregon and you can climb in and take a look.
ReplyDeleteI went & took a look, it was not what I expected from a "wooden" airplane!
ReplyDeletebloody impresssive though wasn't it?
ReplyDeleteIn all respects!
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