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.
Not all of that is wing. The tips are the floats that fold up while in cruise (less drag in cruise but no lift like a wing), fold down for water ops. Got to see one up close and personal. The owner made it into a "RV" for weekends in remote places.
Wonderful Book--read it twice years apart: Sketches of a Black Cat - Expanded Edition: Story of a night flying WWII (PBY Catalina) pilot and artist: https://tinyurl.com/y2kvd2ey, Dan Kurt
The PBY...
ReplyDeleteIt’s been called the most underrated US combat plane of WW2 by Greg's Airplanes and Automobiles on YouTube
ReplyDeleteNot all of that is wing. The tips are the floats that fold up while in cruise (less drag in cruise but no lift like a wing), fold down for water ops. Got to see one up close and personal. The owner made it into a "RV" for weekends in remote places.
ReplyDeleteIf I had a time machine and a checkbook: vintageleatherjackets.org/attachments/img_0090-jpeg.127195/
ReplyDeleteThe flight engineer sat in the small vertical portion of the fuselage that attached the wing. Had to be one of the loudest jobs in the war.
ReplyDeleteWhen I first saw a Canso (Canadian-buiot PBY) in the metal I was surprised at how big it was: two more inches of span over a Lancaster!
ReplyDeleteMy god, what a beautiful aircraft!
ReplyDeleteWonderful Book--read it twice years apart: Sketches of a Black Cat - Expanded Edition: Story of a night flying WWII (PBY Catalina) pilot and artist: https://tinyurl.com/y2kvd2ey,
ReplyDeleteDan Kurt