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.
That looks like EAA Oshcosh, would have been '85 or '86. Yeah, I was there. It was a British Airways plane. Fuel burn on that plane was outrageous.
ReplyDeleteess ess tee
ReplyDeleteWas on Waikiki Beach when one of those landed in Honolulu. It really made a racket.
ReplyDeleteLooks like tricycle gear rather than tail dragging
DeleteThat "big" bird was not all that big (inside)...
ReplyDelete$10k for a Transatlantic flight back then.
ReplyDeleteYou see that hat get snatched off ? Ferocious wake turbulence.
ReplyDeleteObject lesson in wingtip vortices
DeleteSadly though, the Valkyrie met an untimely end. RIP Carl Cross and Joe Walker (F104 pilot).
ReplyDeleteRooskies tried to keep up https://planehistoria.com/tu-144
ReplyDelete