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.
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
Short Sunderland flying boats. Queen's Island, Belfast, 1943
Tells you how much intrinsic value they have stolen from our base currencies, that they could in those days run such complex advanced machines, make a profit, and one could fly on them for reasonable money.
Tells you how much intrinsic value they have stolen from our base currencies, that they could in those days run such complex advanced machines, make a profit, and one could fly on them for reasonable money.
ReplyDeleteThose are military aircraft, operated and funded by the British government, which was nearly bankrupted by WWII.
DeleteTo what benefit, though? The world has airports now, and didn't, then.
ReplyDeleteThese were U-boat killers. WWII was in full swing.
ReplyDeleteBut you're right, they were operated commercially too. Although the flights were very expensive, the Concord of the day.
ReplyDeleteWhen you adjust those prices for inflation, to compare them to what it would cost today, they are not that affordable.
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