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.
That photo fits in with my comment earlier on engineering and style identity connected to nations' culture. Clearly French, as the Leica camera earlier was clearly German. Today EVERYTHING seems emerged from the same cocoon.
The D.500/D.501 saw combat with several operators. During the Spanish Civil War, it was surreptitiously supplied to the Spanish Republican Air Force; it was also flown by the Republic of China Air Force against the invading Japanese during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
That photo fits in with my comment earlier on engineering and style identity connected to nations' culture.
ReplyDeleteClearly French, as the Leica camera earlier was clearly German.
Today EVERYTHING seems emerged from the same cocoon.
"The French copy no one, and no one copies the French."
ReplyDeleteI think that's the "fighter" that during the Spanish Civil War was found to be slower than the DC-3.
ReplyDeleteThe D.500/D.501 saw combat with several operators. During the Spanish Civil War, it was surreptitiously supplied to the Spanish Republican Air Force; it was also flown by the Republic of China Air Force against the invading Japanese during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
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