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.
AH-56 Cheyenne
ReplyDeleteI was privileged to see it fly a demo back in the day, aerobatic. Try that Apache.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, the goddam Army didn't like it (H/T to Bobby Troup for the adjective).
ReplyDeleteNot survivable in a hostile war zone, if I remember correctly.
DeleteWasn’t it able to do lopp-de-loops?
ReplyDeleteLoops, Rolls, fast for the day. Had a nasty habit of running the main rotor blades through the cockpit at high speed.
ReplyDeleteMost of the good ideas were transitioned into the Apache.
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