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.
It's unnatural to see a P-47 equipped with arresting gear land on an aircraft carrier. Then stuff happens because they didn't leave well enough alone and keep the Jugs on a regular runway.
the real thrill is reserved for the guys who picked up the hot armed rocket and pitched the damn thing over the side. flight decks, the most dangerous places in the world above the water's surface...
It's unnatural to see a P-47 equipped with arresting gear land on an aircraft carrier. Then stuff happens because they didn't leave well enough alone and keep the Jugs on a regular runway.
ReplyDeleteIt's a Hellcat, but wherever, huh?? Looks like trying to bowl a strike!!
ReplyDeleteYup and the 10 pins are Aviation mates.
DeleteCheap thrills (as it turned out) for those folk on the deck watching this happen....
ReplyDeletethe real thrill is reserved for the guys who picked up the hot armed rocket and pitched the damn thing over the side.
ReplyDeleteflight decks, the most dangerous places in the world above the water's surface...