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.
Too long ago, enjoyed watching tanker version of the Stratocruiser - KC-97 - and B-47's fly in/out of MacDill. Biggest aircraft I'd seen up to that point. Then one day a wayward Buff arrived!
Dad worked for Pan Am in the 1950s so I got to fly on the Stratocruisers several times. Of course as a teenager I had to wear penny loafers, slacks, a charcoal grey sports jacket and a pink necktie to board the plane.
For those who weren't around in the 50s and early 60s, black or charcoal with pink was a popular color combination. Bathrooms, kitchens, clothes and planes. Cessna sold straight tail, fastback C182s in pink with black trim. Today, it sounds ugly, but planes restored with the Cessna colors look pretty good.
Keep in mind that black and pink turned to avocado green or harvest gold and a few other really bad color schemes. Dave
The Boeing 377 in this picture was converted to the first Pregnant Guppy aircraft in the 1960's and delivered sections of Saturn and Gemini rockets to Cape Canaveral for NASA.
Army Code states the flag is to be placed so “the star field faces forward, or to the flag's own right.” When worn in this manner, the flag is facing to the observer's right, and gives the effect of the flag flying in the breeze as the wearer moves forward.
Silver Wings.
ReplyDeletefamily riding in style in a niiiiice, '49 or '50 Mercury
ReplyDeleteToo long ago, enjoyed watching tanker version of the Stratocruiser - KC-97 - and B-47's fly in/out of MacDill. Biggest aircraft I'd seen up to that point. Then one day a wayward Buff arrived!
ReplyDeleteThe airplane is Being 377 Strato Cruiser According to Googley
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A derivative of the B-29.
DeleteYes, by way of the C-97
DeleteDad worked for Pan Am in the 1950s so I got to fly on the Stratocruisers several times. Of course as a teenager I had to wear penny loafers, slacks, a charcoal grey sports jacket and a pink necktie to board the plane.
ReplyDeleteThe pink necktie explains a lot.
DeleteFor those who weren't around in the 50s and early 60s, black or charcoal with pink was a popular color combination. Bathrooms, kitchens, clothes and planes. Cessna sold straight tail, fastback C182s in pink with black trim. Today, it sounds ugly, but planes restored with the Cessna colors look pretty good.
DeleteKeep in mind that black and pink turned to avocado green or harvest gold and a few other really bad color schemes.
Dave
224 spark plugs going by. P&W R4360s.
ReplyDeleteOur parents. I would have been close to the baby's age. I am now in my late 60s.
ReplyDeleteThat underpass looks like the entrance to O'Hare Field west of Chicago.
ReplyDeleteVisual Search says Idlewild.
DeleteThe Boeing 377 in this picture was converted to the first Pregnant Guppy aircraft in the 1960's and delivered sections of Saturn and Gemini rockets to Cape Canaveral for NASA.
ReplyDeleteOne of the runways at Memphis crosses over a four-land line that. Freaked me out first time I saw an airplane on what I thought was a highway.
ReplyDeleteIs that flag on the tail reversed ?
ReplyDeleteArmy Code states the flag is to be placed so “the star field faces forward, or to the flag's own right.” When worn in this manner, the flag is facing to the observer's right, and gives the effect of the flag flying in the breeze as the wearer moves forward.
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