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.
As a little kid we lived near Hanscom Field, everything flew over, us kids loved it, remember sonic booms once in a while, but later, they got the F4 phantoms, usually in pairs, those guys would go on afterburner sometimes over the house real low, cause our back fence was Hansom's security fence, everything would shake like an earth quake, so loud there ain't words invented for it. With that tail and big ass noce they looked like some kind of beast from a sci-fi story.
In the early 90's we lived about a driver and five iron from Eglin Field. The astronaut wannabe's would check out a jet (nod nod wink wink) to fly home on the weekend. They would stand them on tail over the parking lot and go supersonic straight up to see how many car alarms they could trigger. Good times.
Maverick: Tower, this is Ghost Rider requesting a flyby.
ReplyDeleteTower: That's a negative Ghost Rider, the pattern is full.
Cue music: "The Danger Zone"
All told there goes probably ten grand in fuel and 20 grand in maintenance and engine time.
ReplyDeleteAs a little kid we lived near Hanscom Field, everything flew over, us kids loved it, remember sonic booms once in a while, but later, they got the F4 phantoms, usually in pairs, those guys would go on afterburner sometimes over the house real low, cause our back fence was Hansom's security fence, everything would shake like an earth quake, so loud there ain't words invented for it. With that tail and big ass noce they looked like some kind of beast from a sci-fi story.
ReplyDeleteIn the early 90's we lived about a driver and five iron from Eglin Field. The astronaut wannabe's would check out a jet (nod nod wink wink) to fly home on the weekend. They would stand them on tail over the parking lot and go supersonic straight up to see how many car alarms they could trigger. Good times.
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