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.
This developed into the Strikemaster, a light ground attack aircraft, which looks the same at a glance but with war paint. I live near Wellington New Zealand and a guy who, I think, lives about an hour away by road has one. It flies over frequently in the weekend and is always low but fairly fast - maybe 250 -300 knots. They are cheapish to buy and operate being fairly reliable but pretty thirsty as early jets were. There are a few in private hands. The Royal NZ Air Force operated them but they became time expired due, I recall, to the main spars requiring replacement. They're called Blunts or similar because of their nose shape.
They are used still by the Canadian Armed Forces “Snowbirds” aerial display team. Airworthy depends on how you define it. They have a habit periodically crashing and getting grounded. Like much of CAF equipment it is duck taped together and obsolete
I knew a woman whose kids found a common pigeon (“flying rat” to city folk) with a broken wing. They insisted on making it their veterinary project, exclusive of any adult help. So they came back in a little while, very pleased with themselves. She was disturbed to see that they had wrapped it in duct tape. “Oh, my angels! Don’t you think it will be hard to get that tape off?” They were very indignant. “If it’s good enough for ducks it’s good enough for pigeons!”
This developed into the Strikemaster, a light ground attack aircraft, which looks the same at a glance but with war paint. I live near Wellington New Zealand and a guy who, I think, lives about an hour away by road has one. It flies over frequently in the weekend and is always low but fairly fast - maybe 250 -300 knots. They are cheapish to buy and operate being fairly reliable but pretty thirsty as early jets were. There are a few in private hands. The Royal NZ Air Force operated them but they became time expired due, I recall, to the main spars requiring replacement. They're called Blunts or similar because of their nose shape.
ReplyDeleteThey were the inspiration for the saying " constant thrust, variable noise".
ReplyDeleteInterestingly, I happen to own and fly a T Mark 3A and a BAC 167 MAW in PA
ReplyDeleteThey are used still by the Canadian Armed Forces “Snowbirds” aerial display team. Airworthy depends on how you define it. They have a habit periodically crashing and getting grounded. Like much of CAF equipment it is duck taped together and obsolete
ReplyDeleteDuck tape is Canadian for what is called duct tape in the USA 🤪
ReplyDeleteI knew a woman whose kids found a common pigeon (“flying rat” to city folk) with a broken wing. They insisted on making it their veterinary project, exclusive of any adult help. So they came back in a little while, very pleased with themselves. She was disturbed to see that they had wrapped it in duct tape. “Oh, my angels! Don’t you think it will be hard to get that tape off?” They were very indignant. “If it’s good enough for ducks it’s good enough for pigeons!”
ReplyDeleteThere is one flying around the south of Houston. Does some aerobatics over Galveston Bay on the east side. Very loud.
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