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.
Salt, salt, salt...A tough environment for aircraft.
ReplyDeleteand a Prowler, too...
ReplyDeleteIs that a S-3 Viking in the foreground?
DeleteCheck out Launch the Intruders by Carol Reardon (Historian). Vietnam era good book.
ReplyDeleteGot buzzed by one in southwest Virginia- I could count the rivets on the bird!
ReplyDeleteIn a just world, we'da had the A6F and maybe the -G or -H by now.
ReplyDeleteMorons have been calling the shots in the Navy for over a generation.
Boat Guy
Yeah, plans were afoot to re-wing 'em and proceed on, but funds for that got ate up by the A-12 Avenger II money pit.
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