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.
I paid extra to ride right front seat on EAA's City Of Wichita Tri-Motor a couple years ago. Well worth the extra money. You don't realize how small the windscreen glass it til you look thru it. I asked the pilot how many people were type-rated in these and he said about twenty-five, and he knew most of them. Don't miss it.
Are you sure that's a Ford Tri-motor...because it looks like the Jumkers JU-52 3M to me. Apparently, Hugo Junkers was the first to recognize the value of using sheetmetal for aircraft skins...and he corrugated it to make it stronger in certain directions...I love the JU-52 as much as I love it's contemporary...the Douglas the DC-3!
Each is nice in its own way, but a rather incongruous pair...
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ReplyDeleteNightmist Blue, like my '67 Fastback. Nightmist Blue is black, until you get closer than ten feet!
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ReplyDeleteI paid extra to ride right front seat on EAA's City Of Wichita Tri-Motor a couple years ago. Well worth the extra money. You don't realize how small the windscreen glass it til you look thru it. I asked the pilot how many people were type-rated in these and he said about twenty-five, and he knew most of them. Don't miss it.
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ReplyDeleteAre you sure that's a Ford Tri-motor...because it looks like the Jumkers JU-52 3M to me. Apparently, Hugo Junkers was the first to recognize the value of using sheetmetal for aircraft skins...and he corrugated it to make it stronger in certain directions...I love the JU-52 as much as I love it's contemporary...the Douglas the DC-3!
ReplyDeleteFord had a high wing with outlying motors hanging under the wing.
ReplyDeleteNot what I was expecting. ;-)
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