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.
Tuesday, June 11, 2024
The Plane Looks Worse For Wear. The Car Looks Great.
The skin on that plane makes me think that there has been a serious fire just aft of the cockpit. Until I was convinced on that point, I'd have serious concerns about flying that thing.
Nice shot. Gotta wonder what that plane might have been part of. My dad flew them for a time. Wait, hold on, what is that sound? Shhhh, what? I hear something. From the plane?!?! What are ya' saying, Mister?
"I was there, bub. June 5 and 6, 1944, night skies over France. An 88 gave me this screwed up paint job; too damned close! But we, and I mean me and my guys and the humans, had a job to do. Lost a lot of good friends that night and in the days afterward. God keep 'em... Well, we did it. Knocked them nazi bastards all the way back across the Rhein and more. And here I am, bub, right here. Need me again, and I'm there. We'll get it done once again. Show me the enemy and there shall I go."
Maybe Pixar could create a new movie series "Warbirds," about old war planes called up to duty. Nah, too patriotic, likely about war so it'd bruise the little feeeeelings of too many emotional asthenics.
"Lady Luck" had been used as a jump plane for skydivers at Skydive Chicago Airport in Ottawa, Illinois before being retired in 2003. The airplane sat in the open for 13 years until Frank and Glen Moss made it ready for a ferry flight to Florida, which happened in mid-November 2016.
I'd drive both!
ReplyDeleteThe skin on that plane makes me think that there has been a serious fire just aft of the cockpit. Until I was convinced on that point, I'd have serious concerns about flying that thing.
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Love That Flathead!!!
ReplyDeleteNice shot. Gotta wonder what that plane might have been part of. My dad flew them for a time. Wait, hold on, what is that sound? Shhhh, what? I hear something. From the plane?!?! What are ya' saying, Mister?
ReplyDelete"I was there, bub. June 5 and 6, 1944, night skies over France. An 88 gave me this screwed up paint job; too damned close! But we, and I mean me and my guys and the humans, had a job to do. Lost a lot of good friends that night and in the days afterward. God keep 'em... Well, we did it. Knocked them nazi bastards all the way back across the Rhein and more. And here I am, bub, right here. Need me again, and I'm there. We'll get it done once again. Show me the enemy and there shall I go."
Maybe Pixar could create a new movie series "Warbirds," about old war planes called up to duty. Nah, too patriotic, likely about war so it'd bruise the little feeeeelings of too many emotional asthenics.
No mention of a sad ending, at least.
ReplyDelete"Lady Luck" had been used as a jump plane for skydivers at Skydive Chicago Airport in Ottawa, Illinois before being retired in 2003. The airplane sat in the open for 13 years until Frank and Glen Moss made it ready for a ferry flight to Florida, which happened in mid-November 2016.
https://www.airhistory.net/photo/13959/N408D