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, January 29, 2022
How would you like to fly in that all the way to India?
I have often considered that the luxury of flying in the old, not this old, Clipper Ships, with all the modern avionics and navigation and such, would be a fun thing to do. For the well healed, of course, but half the fun of the trip is the journey itself. Ditto with dirigibles though they would have obvious issue to overcome.
When can we leave?
ReplyDeleteAbout 1928. Short Calcutta flying boat. The pilots were
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I have often considered that the luxury of flying in the old, not this old, Clipper Ships, with all the modern avionics and navigation and such, would be a fun thing to do. For the well healed, of course, but half the fun of the trip is the journey itself. Ditto with dirigibles though they would have obvious issue to overcome.
ReplyDeleteWith a parachute.
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