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.
Shame they couldn't keep the cockpit where it originally was located. I think the bent wing structure intruded after the redesign, so they stuck the central fuel tank there instead.
Needed the bent wings to allow ground clearance for that massive prop, without making the landing gear too tall. Hard to put fuel tanks in bent and hinged wings. (Hinged upward so the plane took up less space when parked on the carrier.) That's why the fuel is between the cockpit and the engine.
I'd commute in that
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Shame they couldn't keep the cockpit where it originally was located. I think the bent wing structure intruded after the redesign, so they stuck the central fuel tank there instead.
ReplyDeleteNeeded the bent wings to allow ground clearance for that massive prop, without making the landing gear too tall. Hard to put fuel tanks in bent and hinged wings. (Hinged upward so the plane took up less space when parked on the carrier.) That's why the fuel is between the cockpit and the engine.
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