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.
Heinkel 111. The cockpit floor is plexiglass, the bombardier's position is offset to the right and the flight instruments are overhead so the pilot's vision forward is unobstructed. Al_in_Ottawa
I had the pleasure of touring the last flying He-111 at the MCAS El Toro airshow around 1996. It was Spanish-built under license. I was told that it was General Franco's personal aircraft. Alas, the plane crashed in Arizona in 2003, killing both pilots. As a result, a piece of history was lost to aviation and WWII history.
In Grade School our Teacher was telling us about the bullet proof glass that was used in the cockpits. One of my friends asked "You mean the glass could stop bullets"? She said "yes"! He said "Why didn't they make the whole plane out of it"?? She had no answer for us!!!
You know it's almost like the trees lining the roads in France because Germans like to march in the shade and when they fly they like a plane with a view!
Heinkel 111: like the Junkers 52 and the Focke-Wulf Kurier - 1930s "airliner" prototypes! "Yes, but the airliner market is rather limiting. Could we develop them into something more useful?"
He-111. Have ask Anna what variant
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I had the pleasure of touring the last flying He-111 at the MCAS El Toro airshow around 1996. It was Spanish-built under license. I was told that it was General Franco's personal aircraft. Alas, the plane crashed in Arizona in 2003, killing both pilots. As a result, a piece of history was lost to aviation and WWII history.
ReplyDeleteIn Grade School our Teacher was telling us about the bullet proof glass that was used in the cockpits. One of my friends asked "You mean the glass could stop bullets"? She said "yes"! He said "Why didn't they make the whole plane out of it"?? She had no answer for us!!!
ReplyDeleteYou know it's almost like the trees lining the roads in France because Germans like to march in the shade and when they fly they like a plane with a view!
ReplyDeleteHeinkel 111: like the Junkers 52 and the Focke-Wulf Kurier - 1930s "airliner" prototypes! "Yes, but the airliner market is rather limiting. Could we develop them into something more useful?"
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