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.
Read they had a superb bombing record, high rate of airworthiness. Made a bunch of Revell models, actually of all that series jets, loved that chin intake.
In summer school after my freshman year, one of the guys on my floor was ex-Navy, a reactor technician on the USS Enterprise. He said the A-7s had an autoland system, and they had to institute a policy that it was not to be used except when absolutely necessary. He said that it was so consistent that the A-7s' tailhooks were beating a dent into the flight deck. Sea story? I don't know.
Is that Steve Canyon?
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A-7E
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DeleteBomber pilots make history." :)
It's a Corsair II. He's feet wet, just needs a sip to get back to the flat top.
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ReplyDeleteRead they had a superb bombing record, high rate of airworthiness. Made a bunch of Revell models, actually of all that series jets, loved that chin intake.
ReplyDeleteMust been fun to mock dogfight with your buddies in.
ReplyDeleteIn summer school after my freshman year, one of the guys on my floor was ex-Navy, a reactor technician on the USS Enterprise. He said the A-7s had an autoland system, and they had to institute a policy that it was not to be used except when absolutely necessary. He said that it was so consistent that the A-7s' tailhooks were beating a dent into the flight deck. Sea story? I don't know.
ReplyDeleteI've read that those planes were really loved by pilots and grunts on the ground alike.
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