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.
It's a B17G model with a twin .50 chin turret. The Luftwaffe discovered that the safest way to attack a "Flying Fortress" was head on and fire into the nose and cockpit. The chin turret shot down (couldn't resit) that tactic.
Stay far away from both of those beasts unless you are very skilled in their operation.
ReplyDeleteThe airplane (bomber?) looks like it has buck teeth.
ReplyDeleteIt's a B17G model with a twin .50 chin turret. The Luftwaffe discovered that the safest way to attack a "Flying Fortress" was head on and fire into the nose and cockpit. The chin turret shot down (couldn't resit) that tactic.
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ReplyDeleteI wonder how often they shot up their own #2+#3 engines/props with those cheek guns. They don't seem to have travel limiters.
ReplyDeleteLike Indiana Jones' father?
DeleteIt is absolutely incredible what humans are able to do with sheet metal. Look at those compound curves hammered out of aluminum.
ReplyDeleteThe irony of displaying the aluminum overcast behind the product of the factories it relentlessly bombed was evidently lost on the photo director.
ReplyDeleteAesop,
ReplyDeletethat was an ENGLISH made car, that Carrol Shelby reworked to handle the smallblock Ford, and then a big block, with an American bomber.