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.
And.. he is trying to put the aircraft on a net covered sled the ship is towing. Then the observer gets to climb up and connect the hoist to the airplane.
What a crap shoot flying one and landing up there on the north sea. Those pilots had balls of steel.
ReplyDeleteI can't imagine trying to land that size air machine in a sea like that...I agree, balls of steel.
ReplyDeleteSpinning prop, rough sea, pitching boat, dangling cable. What could go wrong?
ReplyDeleteAnd.. he is trying to put the aircraft on a net covered sled the ship is towing. Then the observer gets to climb up and connect the hoist to the airplane.
ReplyDeleteContrary to popular belief the Wild Weasels did not invent "YGTBSM"
DeleteTough old bird! Tough old bird-men!
ReplyDeleteI can't decide which is more stunning, the recovery on a towed net or the launch from a steam piston off the deck.
ReplyDeleteShips of iron and nerves of steel.
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"Corrosion problems? WHAT corrosion problems??"
ReplyDeleteCLANG!
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