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.
Most probably real. Looks like the plane used to do the first long endurance via inflight refueling flight.
It wasn't until WWII that really big planes stopped having access passages for the flight engineer to service engines in flight. Especially common with long-range flying boats of the passenger carrying kind.
Most probably real. Looks like the plane used to do the first long endurance via inflight refueling flight.
ReplyDeleteIt wasn't until WWII that really big planes stopped having access passages for the flight engineer to service engines in flight. Especially common with long-range flying boats of the passenger carrying kind.
It appears to be Roy Mitchell and Byron K. Newcomb setting a refueled endurance record in 1929.
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Now that's a flight mechanic!
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