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.
"Old Shakey." I worked on the autopilot and compass systems on them for my first three years in the Air Force. Lots of good memories of them and the people I worked with.
Douglas C-124
ReplyDeleteThe "Shakey" or "All Weather Interceptor" Listened to many tales of my elders droning across the pacific in these and C-54s !!
ReplyDeletewonder if that's GFAFB, ND
ReplyDeleteWherever you find a frozen, desolate hellhole, your Air Force is there !
DeleteBecause somewhere under that ice...there's a golf course.
DeleteI love that airplane!
ReplyDeleteI actually got to fly in one as a passenger, probably one of the very last flights delivering cargo before it was retired from service.
What a memory!
"Old Shakey." I worked on the autopilot and compass systems on them for my first three years in the Air Force. Lots of good memories of them and the people I worked with.
ReplyDeleteI want one to make a house out of it.
ReplyDeleteGood looking plane. Can't say the same about the stewardess.
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