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.
Tuesday, May 28, 2019
A MiG-17F performs an aerial maneuver during the Twilight Show at Barksdale Air Force Base, La., May 17, 2019.
something about the roll rate being just as bricklike as the bricklike rate of descent with the power off. at high speed, the only way to get it to roll is to boot in a pile of rudder. and yet, I too would like a bit of stick time in it.
I’d love to fly one.
ReplyDeleteI hear they're a bear to aviate, LL. Something about the glide-slope of a brick comes to mind.
DeleteI'd love to be looking at that sight picture with the pipper on the wing root.
DeleteNeed to 'shop an AIM-9 headed up the tail pipe........
ReplyDeletesomething about the roll rate being just as bricklike as the bricklike rate of descent with the power off. at high speed, the only way to get it to roll is to boot in a pile of rudder. and yet, I too would like a bit of stick time in it.
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