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.
In later years people will ask "which came first the chicken or the egg?" and "which came first the stealth fighter or the cybertruck?
ReplyDeleteKinda partial to the F-86 myself. F-4s saved our ass at Calu.
ReplyDeleteF-86 is my all time favorite. Close second is P-51. De Havilland Mosquito and A-6 Intruder tie for 3rd place.
DeleteWell, nice but I'll stay with the SR-71 as my personal favorite.
ReplyDeleteYes! But I probably say that being a former DMA cartographer...
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ReplyDeleteThat plane looks like a Tesla truck!!!
If it is my boots on the ground I want to hear the sweet hum of an A-10 letting itself be known.
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Deletethe A-10 Warthog is my favorite... ask any grunt on the ground.
ReplyDeleteif you can hear it, you were not the target.
So just moved to the country out west of DFW. They fly over every day.
ReplyDeleteIt was nicknamed the "Wobblin' Goblin" and having seen one overhead in the landing pattern in 1994, I could tell why.
ReplyDeleteLove all of the Acft, But only the A-10 has a Ramones Song; Mentions hating Commies! https://youtu.be/MmZSeHLu8ew?si=FdPU9Q1lZtqZtP_k
ReplyDeleteMy dad was an ACIC (Aeronautical Chart & Information Center) cartographer, before McNamara centralized the mapping services for all the services.
ReplyDeleteDesigned and built by men who still used slide rules...
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