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.
Saturday, October 2, 2021
Lieutenant John Bawden, Royal Navy, picking up members of a Gurkha patrol during jungle operations in the Malayan emergency, 1956, He was killed the following November after his helicopter suffered a malfunction and crashed.
The "Jesus Nut" that kept the rotor on came off (a failing of that airship) and the rotor went one way with torque and all and the helicopter followed the demands of gravity.
The "Jesus Nut" that kept the rotor on came off (a failing of that airship) and the rotor went one way with torque and all and the helicopter followed the demands of gravity.
ReplyDeleteWith the specification 1956-era RN beard well maintained, by thunder.
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