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.
Ten turboprops. Two driving outboard single four-bladed props, and four pairs of two driving four contra-rotating props (8 blades) so the picture shows port two inboard installations and the starboard outboard; inboard being hidden by fuselage....I had to look it up
Looks like a pregnant B29.
ReplyDeleteHey! It is not nice to "plane shame"!!!
ReplyDeleteWelcome to Lizzo Airlines.
DeleteBritish post-war flying boat. It flew quite well, just couldn't compete against long range aircraft like Lockheed's Constellation.
ReplyDeleteSaunders Roe SR-45 Princess. 3 built. Only one ever flew.
ReplyDeletePort engines, 8 blades; stbd engines, 4 blades.
ReplyDeleteCould only fly in a circle.
DeleteTen turboprops. Two driving outboard single four-bladed props, and four pairs of two driving four contra-rotating props (8 blades) so the picture shows port two inboard installations and the starboard outboard; inboard being hidden by fuselage....I had to look it up
ReplyDeleteWas that before or after the "Spruce Goose"?
ReplyDelete