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.
CH-47... It's little brother, the CH-46 Sea Knight was the US Marine's workhorse for decades. The crews of those choppers called the See Knight = the Phrog.
If you ever want to see something interesting, go take a gander at how the driveshafts are 'mated' together. Flex Pack aka Thomas Coupling...lots of very thin sheets of metal bolted together. Was a mech in the 104th AVN out of Avoca, PA.
Chinook helicopter, our friend since 1962.
ReplyDeleteCH-47... It's little brother, the CH-46 Sea Knight was the US Marine's workhorse for decades. The crews of those choppers called the See Knight = the Phrog.
ReplyDeleteThat is a Semper Fi. From an old CH-46 Crewchief, Vietnam.
DeleteOOO-RAH Dave!!!
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ReplyDeleteSaw two fly over today from Fort Drum.
DeleteIf you ever want to see something interesting, go take a gander at how the driveshafts are 'mated' together. Flex Pack aka Thomas Coupling...lots of very thin sheets of metal bolted together. Was a mech in the 104th AVN out of Avoca, PA.
ReplyDeletesomewhere between fact & legend it's been said that "the last Phrog Flyer has'nt been born yet".
ReplyDeleteThe USMC $hit canned their Phrogs several years ago. I wonder who you are referring to?
DeleteI always thought these were loud until an Osprey went over the house at around 2500' the other day. Wow.
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