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.
"Clean and polished" is not the point. Any time you touch a prop, as a pilot doing a preflight or a crew chief doing his or her job, you are looking for tiny nicks, which are stress risers. They need to be filed out.
Hi CW!!, 'Hard to tell where this is goin' on??? Military?? RENO?? another story... Props are the front line behind the pistons an etc.... Spit and polished equals more performance and speed!! I recall at RENO some years ago.. my friend "Jagger" said that "DAGO RED" spent $75,000 to get their pro[p tuned up!! GO FIGURE!!! skybill
With Acme Prop Wash!
ReplyDeleteWow! One of the earliest...'Sweater Girls'!
ReplyDeleteShe can clean and polish my props any day, now, how can I afford an aeroplane...
ReplyDeleteA little off the subject, but a plane story. Major Fenn USAF pasted away on 8 Sept. Here's an article of his "interesting" career:
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Nobody ever remembers the Hun drivers. Well, almost nobody...……
DeleteThank you for the link, very muchy.
"Clean and polished" is not the point. Any time you touch a prop, as a pilot doing a preflight or a crew chief doing his or her job, you are looking for tiny nicks, which are stress risers. They need to be filed out.
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DeleteHi CW!!,
Delete'Hard to tell where this is goin' on??? Military?? RENO?? another story... Props are the front line behind the pistons an etc.... Spit and polished equals more performance and speed!! I recall at RENO some years ago.. my friend "Jagger" said that "DAGO RED" spent $75,000 to get their pro[p tuned up!! GO FIGURE!!!
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Two gorgeous ladies, Rosie and the P-51
ReplyDeleteLooks like a California girl which would make that a P-51B.
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