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've not before seen refueling over a large city. I wonder if its a warzone. I notice there are no ships. I also notice ni turning basin. Either the basin is off screen or a ships backs all the way to the port cranes.
Oh, if you want one you might as well ask for two or three. And two full mx crews.
As for wanting one, they're 30 years old, and 45 year old technology. Hang around Tonopah; they should start coming down around the base with some regularity from here on out.
Anybody gets a shot like this of whatever Mach 5-6 beast replaced the SR-71, however, and please give a holler.
Aviation Leak will pay mid-five figures for the pic, if you can avoid federal prison.
OK. you'd like the same sort of tip on yours?
ReplyDeleteI've not before seen refueling over a large city. I wonder if its a warzone. I notice there are no ships. I also notice ni turning basin. Either the basin is off screen or a ships backs all the way to the port cranes.
ReplyDeleteOh, if you want one you might as well ask for two or three. And two full mx crews.
Long Beach, San Pedro. Google Earth prevails.
ReplyDeleteSan Pedro, not Long Beach.
DeleteThe difference between Frisco, and Oakland.
33.73039848,-118.27863607, give or take.
The left wing leading edge is just about exactly covering the USS Iowa berth.
So it IS a war zone.
DeleteActually, for the cognisenti, it is San Francisco, not Frisco.
DeleteIt's always Frisco, because it really pisses the natives of Frisco off, and they're all commie nutjobs anyways.
DeleteI call it San Fransicko.
DeleteI couldn't afford the gas it took to get the plane off the ground!
ReplyDeleteAs for wanting one, they're 30 years old, and 45 year old technology. Hang around Tonopah; they should start coming down around the base with some regularity from here on out.
ReplyDeleteAnybody gets a shot like this of whatever Mach 5-6 beast replaced the SR-71, however, and please give a holler.
Aviation Leak will pay mid-five figures for the pic, if you can avoid federal prison.