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, July 1, 2023
Douglas C-47 Skytrain floatplane conversion, US Air Base, Cuba, c.1940
Those are amphibious floats the wheels retract into the floats. You can see the door hinges near the keel. My first job was fixing bush planes in Northwestern Ontario. The planes were all on straight floats (amphibs are heavy which reduces revenue cargo) so we had to attach beaching gear or use a dolly to bring the plane from the water to the hangar. Al_in_Ottawa
So I guess some feller wades out into the water to stick those pogo wheels into the sockets?
ReplyDeleteThose are amphibious floats the wheels retract into the floats. You can see the door hinges near the keel. My first job was fixing bush planes in Northwestern Ontario. The planes were all on straight floats (amphibs are heavy which reduces revenue cargo) so we had to attach beaching gear or use a dolly to bring the plane from the water to the hangar.
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We got one up here in Maine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJ6zTZuq5zw
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