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.
The Lightning was never intended for ground attack. It was a pure interceptor made to close rapidly with Russian bombers and shoot them down before they could drop their nuclear bombs on Britain. Al_in_Ottawa
English Electric Lightning.
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ReplyDeleteProf. Brian Cox flew in that plane (ZU-BEX) a month before it crashed.
DeletePity it was a month later.. lightweight celebrity leftoid.
DeletePhaster than the Phantom.
ReplyDeleteBut cant drop one bomb or fire one rocket in that configuration.
ReplyDeleteThe Lightning was never intended for ground attack. It was a pure interceptor made to close rapidly with Russian bombers and shoot them down before they could drop their nuclear bombs on Britain.
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EXTREMELY poor gas mileage, I have been told. Get 'em on the first intercept and then come home for fuel.
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