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.
Tuesday, May 3, 2022
Close-up view of a P-38G Lightning aircraft cockpit, 23 Dec 1942
In 3-D!
ReplyDeletehttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/p-38-lightning-180954047/
A fighter with a yoke rather than a joystick.
ReplyDeleteAnd that was someone's office ...
ReplyDeleteAnd he probably hadn't yet celebrated his 20th birthday.
DeleteCool and bad ass.
ReplyDeleteWhere does the pilot sit?
ReplyDeleteI have a picture of me sitting in the seat of Left Gardner's P-38 "White Lightning".
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