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's an ugly little spud. It was high-performance in its day (early 1930s), and tricky to fly. Jimmy Doolittle mastered it, though, and a world speed record in 1932.
I saw footage of the fatal crash of Lowell Bayles in 1931 as he was trying to set a new speed record. He had no chance, the plane just flipped over and slammed into the ground. Here is that footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UmmeWVAt6A Crazy plane
That's an ugly little spud. It was high-performance in its day (early 1930s), and tricky to fly. Jimmy Doolittle mastered it, though, and a world speed record in 1932.
ReplyDeleteI saw footage of the fatal crash of Lowell Bayles in 1931 as he was trying to set a new speed record. He had no chance, the plane just flipped over and slammed into the ground.
ReplyDeleteHere is that footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UmmeWVAt6A
Crazy plane
It's the Bee Gees. Oops, I mean the Gee Bee.
ReplyDeleteStubby...and highly dangerous to anyone but expert pilot.
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