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.
Wednesday, November 15, 2023
Lone F4 up front on the Ark Royal in pitching sea.
In the end it may have been a poor choice to power the British version of the Phantom with Spey engines. It was an even poorer choice that saw the Pommies lumbered with a Commie crook of a PM like Tony Blair, who essentially left the RN Fleet Air Arm and the RAF without viable marine reconnaissance, anti-submarine, strike or force projection capabilities for decades.
Back when Britain Had no diversity and a navy. F-4 ruled the skies
ReplyDeleteWhen the Royal Navy was royal and a navy.
DeleteIn the end it may have been a poor choice to power the British version of the Phantom with Spey engines. It was an even poorer choice that saw the Pommies lumbered with a Commie crook of a PM like Tony Blair, who essentially left the RN Fleet Air Arm and the RAF without viable marine reconnaissance, anti-submarine, strike or force projection capabilities for decades.
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