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.
Painted. The canopy frame is aluminum; about the only steel you’ll find would be in hardware. Steel’s heavy. Pink glow is probably a light in the cockpit placed for artistic effect.
High Flight "Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things You have not dreamed of – wheeled and soared and swung High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there, I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung My eager craft through footless halls of air....
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace. Where never lark, or even eagle flew — And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod The high untrespassed sanctity of space, – Put out my hand, and touched the face of God."
Obscured by blurry teardrops, my guess is one F-86 or the other. And I thought that end-of-watch, they all went to heaven.
ReplyDeleteAgreed, that's just sad.
DeleteYeap..F-86..canopy base appears to have rusted whereas aluminum body still ok... what’s the pinkish glow about...??
ReplyDeletePainted. The canopy frame is aluminum; about the only steel you’ll find would be in hardware. Steel’s heavy. Pink glow is probably a light in the cockpit placed for artistic effect.
DeleteOdd place to put refueling port. Pink canopy could be caused by sunset just above horizon, summer months maybe?
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ReplyDelete"Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of – wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there,
I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air....
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace.
Where never lark, or even eagle flew —
And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
– Put out my hand, and touched the face of God."
I still watch the PBS video from Sunday morning on occasion have since it started.
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