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, January 18, 2020
Saunders Roe seaplane fighter prototype. It was designed for the proposed invasion of Japan but did not go into production.
Designed to maximize the chance of sucking multiple seagulls into the engine.
from the perspective of a survivor sitting in a one man life raft faced with a gaggle of gulls with their razor sharp beaks just waiting for you to fall asleep, I agree completely
They were also converting C-47s to gliders.
ReplyDeleteSeagulls are just flying rats (a lot like pigeons) and deserve to have their numbers thinned.
ReplyDeletefrom the perspective of a survivor sitting in a one man life raft faced with a gaggle of gulls with their razor sharp beaks just waiting for you to fall asleep, I agree completely
DeleteFighter? It looks about as maneuverable as a slug.
ReplyDeleteAccording to the RAF's Eric "Winkle" Brown that was a sweet flying plane. He damn near got killed in it when he hit a submerged log.
DeleteHappily, we dropped the BOMB. Sucked to be them.
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