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.
What most don't know about the F4U (most block numbers) is that all the control surfaces and 1/3 of the wing covering---is fabric. It was the last "hybrid" fabric and metal aircraft in US service.---Ray
The paint covering that proud warbird is an atrocity.
ReplyDeleteI agree El-Tee! Pappy Boyington would puke the same color vomit if he saw it.
DeleteLooks like a flying ad for Slime.
DeleteIt should be Tri-Color, or overall Navy Blue. ( Although the Gull Gray over White AU-1s of the 1950's were sharp looking birds!
DeleteThat's the ugliest blue I ever saw....
DeleteWhat most don't know about the F4U (most block numbers) is that all the control surfaces and 1/3 of the wing covering---is fabric. It was the last "hybrid" fabric and metal aircraft in US service.---Ray
ReplyDeleteMy dad had a Luscombe Silvaire, metal fuselage, fabric wing....I always wondered if that was for weight savings or economy....
DeleteNot so...the C123 had fabric-covered control surfaces.
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