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.
F-8s up top, A-4s and F-4s on the carrier deck and glorious F-100 ‘Huns’ on the roll. Wingman on the left, first to stroke the burner on lead’s signal, to insure timely power on takeoff.
Why glorious? Was my first fighter, followed by the F-4 and F-16 . When in the F-4, they were using Huns as drone targets at the air to air missile range in the Gulf of Mexico. Later, it was F-4s. Sadness!
Loved the Hun & the Rhino as a kid. I remember the T-birds flying both before they wimped out & went to T-38’s. Dad wrenched on F-4C’s & D’s; I got to play with G’s for a bit.
Rather an eclectic assortment: Two scale model RCs looking showroom fresh on the top (pro tip: real a/c, especially legacy F-8s, have metric buttloads of grease and hydraulic fluid coming out of everything) at the end of some cornfield RC airport; some glorious color footage of the Forrestal underway; and a pair of Huns rolling out, back in the day.
"Back in the day"
ReplyDeleteAll of the aircraft are long gone.
Along with the ship.
DeleteF-8s up top, A-4s and F-4s on the carrier deck and glorious F-100 ‘Huns’ on the roll. Wingman on the left, first to stroke the burner on lead’s signal, to insure timely power on takeoff.
ReplyDeleteWhy glorious? Was my first fighter, followed by the F-4 and F-16 . When in the F-4, they were using Huns as drone targets at the air to air missile range in the Gulf of Mexico. Later, it was F-4s. Sadness!
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Loved the Hun & the Rhino as a kid. I remember the T-birds flying both before they wimped out & went to T-38’s. Dad wrenched on F-4C’s & D’s; I got to play with G’s for a bit.
DeleteRather an eclectic assortment:
ReplyDeleteTwo scale model RCs looking showroom fresh on the top (pro tip: real a/c, especially legacy F-8s, have metric buttloads of grease and hydraulic fluid coming out of everything) at the end of some cornfield RC airport; some glorious color footage of the Forrestal underway; and a pair of Huns rolling out, back in the day.
The second one is my old ship, USS Forrestal (CV 59). Long gone now.
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