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.
Hi Ken, the SBD has baseball sized holes in the flaps for their secondary function as a dive brake. Also the SBD doesn't have folding wings. The paint scheme on this Corsair is from the Korean war era. Al_in_Ottawa
F-4U Corsair!!!
ReplyDeletebrutal, and beautiful.
DeleteNo dash. F4U
DeleteSBD Douglas Dauntless Dive bomber, not a Corsair no gull bend in wing. Also the Corsair wings folded further out last 4 feet tips only.
ReplyDeleteKen NWF
Hi Ken, the SBD has baseball sized holes in the flaps for their secondary function as a dive brake. Also the SBD doesn't have folding wings. The paint scheme on this Corsair is from the Korean war era.
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SBD had a three-bladed propeller. Photo obviously shows a four bladed prop. Later versions of the F4U (Korean war) had 4-bladed props.
ReplyDeleteSome Hellcats had 4 bladed props towards the end of the war as well....
ReplyDeleteinteresting they would have all that weight on with the wings folded up. I guess the Grumman Iron Works moniker rings true.
ReplyDeleteWhite Privilege in action! Shame, shame, shame!
ReplyDeletesuck it tojo
ReplyDeleteThanks Al in Ottawa, I stand corrected. I guess my eyesight is really getting worse along with my memory.
ReplyDeleteKen NWF
nobody has chimed in with the IYAOYAS challenge.
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