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.
Friday, September 27, 2024
The North American FJ-3 Fury, a carrier capable cousin of the F-86 Sabre. First flight of the Fury was December 27th, 1951. Introduction to service was 3 years later in 1954. 741 total were built and she would serve until September 1962.
8 yrs service. B52s are how old?
ReplyDeletePretty Aircraft. My father flew FJ-4B Fury's from the USS Ticonderoga in the late 50's.
ReplyDeleteSea-going Sabre?
ReplyDeleteShould have been named the Cutlass.
They hadn't wasted that named on the F7U yet.