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.
I saw the color in the picture and went down the rabbit hole. There is/was a flying replica of the Vickers Vimy that replicated the flights G-EAOU. That may be the aircraft in the picture.
A good movie to watch with a lot of WW1 equipment,
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if only to have been there.
ReplyDeleteVickers Vimy bomber G-EAOU won the first England to Australia race in 1919.
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I saw the color in the picture and went down the rabbit hole. There is/was a flying replica of the Vickers Vimy that replicated the flights G-EAOU. That may be the aircraft in the picture.
ReplyDeleteIt would have to be a replica as the image quality is pretty 'modern'.
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