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 necessarily. Could still be restored with enough time, talent and money.
ReplyDeleteBG
mostly money
DeleteIt's a project, but by no means beyond getting airborne again.
DeleteJust depends on having a wallet, a backbone, and a skull with equal thicknesses.
Don't recognize the plane. Is it a C 47?
ReplyDelete'Flight of the Phoenix'
ReplyDeleteLockheed Ventura, I think.
ReplyDeleteAl_in_Ottawa
Lockheed PV-2 Harpoon, former USN BuNo 37550 (c/n 15-1516), was on civil register as N7251C. Now derelict at Chandler, AZ
ReplyDeleteEngines might be pretty decent they look to be covered, at least for parting out.
ReplyDeleteprops too
DeleteCouple love taps with a mallet, a strip or 2 of speed tape….engines on, chocks away, last one back’s a homo!
ReplyDeleteWatch out for about sixty years worth of hydraulic lock.
DeleteHold my beer, and pass the speed tape. And get the starting cart.
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