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.
"The Airmen Who Would Not Die" Totally Trash fiction. Made up stories and only tiny bits of truth mixed in. The whole story, is so much more tragic. Government incompetence at it's worst, plus lots of Ego.
I always thought that it's registration letters were the first clue foreshadowing what was to come. G-FAAW. As in Guffaw, laughter
Seriously, though. What is that? Ballast?
ReplyDeleteCommon error… the toilet dump handle was right next to the ballast.
ReplyDeleteInteresting story of the crash and aftermath: The Airmen Who Would Not Die
ReplyDeleteR101 was the British govt design and it was always a pile of crap that promptly failed in a firery crash. Why am I not surprised.
ReplyDeleteThe list of airships that failed is pretty much all of them, and "in a fiery crash" is most of them.
DeleteThere's a lesson there.
"As safe as a house, except for the millionth chance."
ReplyDelete"The Airmen Who Would Not Die"
ReplyDeleteTotally Trash fiction.
Made up stories and only tiny bits of truth mixed in.
The whole story, is so much more tragic.
Government incompetence at it's worst, plus lots of Ego.
I always thought that it's registration letters were the first clue foreshadowing what was to come.
G-FAAW.
As in Guffaw, laughter