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.
There used to be a story, I don't know if it is apocryphal, that Swiss fighters could never fly in a straight line for more than 4 minutes or they would be outside their territorial airspace.
Flew in out of the Zurich airport a few times as a passenger. There are these cumulogranite cloud formations. Good spot for high speed mid air collision with planet Earth.
We are looking at the bottom of the aircraft and the ground below, beyond it, as it appears to be in a vertical dive. No visible thermal signature from the tailcones? Diving with full armament on board? One would think it would have the heat turned on anticipating a pullout at this point.
Guess they take guarding all that Nazi gold and triangle chocolate seriously.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if even one single Swiss Air Force plane ever fired a shot in anger.
ReplyDeleteThere used to be a story, I don't know if it is apocryphal, that Swiss fighters could never fly in a straight line for more than 4 minutes or they would be outside their territorial airspace.
ReplyDeleteI see black soot. So, they must have done some practice shooting.
ReplyDeleteIs the Swiss Airforce as large as the Swiss Navy?
ReplyDeleteSpin
Actually, their AF is top notch. As for the army, you are on reserve status for 30 yrs. from 18 to 48. Every house is well armed.
DeleteFlew in out of the Zurich airport a few times as a passenger. There are these cumulogranite cloud formations. Good spot for high speed mid air collision with planet Earth.
ReplyDeleteSwiss AF Tailhook. Now there's a small club.
ReplyDeleteI count 12 rockets on that jet. 10 with white tips and 2 with black.
ReplyDeleteThe missiles with black noses mounted on the wingtips are AIM9. The other 10 are the AIM120s.
DeleteLake Brienz, right by Meiringen AB
ReplyDeleteHow many has anyone burned off in one mission? Hits?
ReplyDeleteWe are looking at the bottom of the aircraft and the ground below, beyond it, as it appears to be in a vertical dive. No visible thermal signature from the tailcones? Diving with full armament on board?
ReplyDeleteOne would think it would have the heat turned on anticipating a pullout at this point.
Or is this the dreaded AI?