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.
No, it was one of a few schemes tried on the Felixstowe flying boats. The combat pictured is likely based on reality with the adversary being a Junkers sea plane. I could name probable names of the crews but would have to go out to my modeling shed to look it up. Being cold and wet I won't bother.
Hospital? So they won't shoot it down?
ReplyDeleteNo, it was one of a few schemes tried on the Felixstowe flying boats. The combat pictured is likely based on reality with the adversary being a Junkers sea plane. I could name probable names of the crews but would have to go out to my modeling shed to look it up. Being cold and wet I won't bother.
ReplyDeleteI remember reading somewhere that squadrons would decorate one plane to make it easier for the other pilots to form up to if they got separated.
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