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.
C-69 or C-121 tail section? Either way a Constellation.
ReplyDeleteC-119
Delete121. The C-119 was twin tail boomed. This one’s buried in Anarctica. That’s the left side of the horizontal stab & left vertical stab.
DeleteSearch Al Gore's amazing interweb for "C-121 crash in Antarctica" and you'll find several websites with details and more pictures.
DeleteThe purtiest plane ever made! Thank you, Mr. Hughes!
ReplyDeletePilot 1 "Hey, Fred, you feel a draft in here?"
ReplyDeletePilot 2 "Yeah, kinda drafty, ain't it?"