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.
Saw the Concorde at EAA Oshcosh back in '86. They were offering 15 minute rides up to the Canadian border and back, $800. Couldn't afford it, shame. Fuel burn on that jet was astronomical!
I used to deliver new cars to a drop yard directly under an approach to JFK. Just off Rt 27 on Long Island. One side of the road was lots full of cars, other side was residential neighborhood. When a 747 would fly over, a couple car alarms went off. When a Concorde flew over, ALL the alarms went off. Unbelievably loud and earth shaking.
No fly zone.
ReplyDeleteSaw the Concorde at EAA Oshcosh back in '86. They were offering 15 minute rides up to the Canadian border and back, $800. Couldn't afford it, shame. Fuel burn on that jet was astronomical!
ReplyDeleteI wonder who waived cabotage.
DeleteA small piece of metal on the runway punctured the Concordes fuel tank which caught fire, dooming the plane to crash into a hotel.
ReplyDeleteI used to deliver new cars to a drop yard directly under an approach to JFK. Just off Rt 27 on Long Island. One side of the road was lots full of cars, other side was residential neighborhood. When a 747 would fly over, a couple car alarms went off. When a Concorde flew over, ALL the alarms went off. Unbelievably loud and earth shaking.
ReplyDeleteMy fellow airliners; the airline will not survive unless we allow FOD into our turbofans.
ReplyDeleteSaw the last few flights out of IAD, while working in Leesburg, VA. Shook the office.
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