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.
P38's. Early models with the slanted inlet below the engines. They have mass balancers on the horizontal stabilizer, so not too early. Beautiful and deadly.
Spent the winter of 77-78 flying P-3s out of Adak, AK. Tough place to fly with a reliable, 4 engine turboprop with decent navigation equipment. Can't imagine flying a twin engine, let alone a single engine piston plane with not much of any navigation equipment.
Black widda? (P61?)
ReplyDeleteP38's. Early models with the slanted inlet below the engines. They have mass balancers on the horizontal stabilizer, so not too early. Beautiful and deadly.
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ReplyDeleteNever forget seeing P-38's over my grandmother's house when I was four or five years old right after the War (WW-II, The Big One).
ReplyDeleteLightnings fer sure flying over the Aleutians.
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Read The Thousand Mile war about WWII in the Aleutians. Shitty weather conditions for flying, sailing, ground pounding, shitty all the way around.
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ReplyDeleteSpent the winter of 77-78 flying P-3s out of Adak, AK. Tough place to fly with a reliable, 4 engine turboprop with decent navigation equipment. Can't imagine flying a twin engine, let alone a single engine piston plane with not much of any navigation equipment.
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