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.
Magnificent. There's a great video of it in flight here: https://youtu.be/rhiUKhjiwjc
ReplyDeleteMost of the Vega's built were all wood. Fantasy of Flight in Florida is restoring a wooden Vega (replica of Wiley Posts' Winnie Mae)
ReplyDeleteMy article about this airplane from Aviation History Magazine:
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Takes a lot of NeverDull to keep that bird pretty.
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