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.
On the bottom of the airplane, yes. They expected the NUDETs to happen on ground or at low altitude, with airplanes at high altitude. No need to paint the top white.
You can tell the new ones...they haven't got a tan yet.
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They're all wrapped up.
DeleteJust waiting for the next hail storm with 90 mile an hour wilds to push some of the vans into them.
ReplyDeleteOr a group of drones Pearl Harbor them.
a neighbor lost their roof because another neighbor’s trash couch hit it with 80 mile an hour winds last week.
Tom at Possum Kingdom.
Sometimes they painted nuclear capable aircraft white to reduce effects from being close to a detonation.
ReplyDeleteOn the bottom of the airplane, yes. They expected the NUDETs to happen on ground or at low altitude, with airplanes at high altitude. No need to paint the top white.
DeleteHip Wrapped inactive birds at Site 2 in Palmdale, CA. They used to keep the inactive SR-71s and the old A-12s there. I worked at Site 1 for years.
ReplyDeleteAll B-2s were built next door at Site 3.
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