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.
summer of 1975 I worked at the Great Northern Nekoosa paper mill in Millinocket, Maine. I rented a room from a nice old lady, Mrs. Feeney (have been wondering if she is any relation to Tucker Carlsons' neighbor with same last name). Her house was on Knox Street, almost perfectly in line with the main runway of the nearby airport. There were several of these old WW2 torpedo bombers that had ben converted to spray for the spruce bud worms, to protect the raw material for the paper mill. The noise of their engines taking off and flying over my bedroom was my alarm clock on many a morning.
Paper mill is long gone. I've always wondered what happened to the hydro power plants that fed the mill, they were all 50 Hz AC for the circa 1910 motors in the old section of the mill.
Steve's post, including the words "spray" and "noise", reminded me of this: https://www.warbirdregistry.org/corsairregistry/fg1-92304.html Owned and operated by Cupples Products in St. Louis. Used for testing their building-construction products. https://40southnews.com/maplewood-history-the-astounding-story-of-maplewoods-own-cupples-products-corporation/
summer of 1975 I worked at the Great Northern Nekoosa paper mill in Millinocket, Maine. I rented a room from a nice old lady, Mrs. Feeney (have been wondering if she is any relation to Tucker Carlsons' neighbor with same last name). Her house was on Knox Street, almost perfectly in line with the main runway of the nearby airport. There were several of these old WW2 torpedo bombers that had ben converted to spray for the spruce bud worms, to protect the raw material for the paper mill. The noise of their engines taking off and flying over my bedroom was my alarm clock on many a morning.
ReplyDeletePaper mill is long gone. I've always wondered what happened to the hydro power plants that fed the mill, they were all 50 Hz AC for the circa 1910 motors in the old section of the mill.
Looks like a Grumman TBF Avenger torpedo bomber, or could be the TBM version, same thing but produced by General Motors.
ReplyDeleteMost Avengers were Eastern Aircraft TBMs.
DeleteSteve's post, including the words "spray" and "noise", reminded me of this:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.warbirdregistry.org/corsairregistry/fg1-92304.html
Owned and operated by Cupples Products in St. Louis. Used for testing their building-construction products.
https://40southnews.com/maplewood-history-the-astounding-story-of-maplewoods-own-cupples-products-corporation/