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.
Russia builds some pretty nice aircraft. Some duds too, but so to other countries. Read a great story on those Yaks, they seem to have performed a lot better than the western views on them tell.
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ReplyDeleteMario is in the middle.
ReplyDeleteIs that the Russian star on the tail?
ReplyDeleteYak 38, a Soviet clone of the Harrier.
ReplyDeleteSoviet YAK-38 FORGERS. Probably a Kiev Class carrier- excuse me "Heavy Aircraft Carrying Cruiser"
ReplyDeleteA Fairy Tale begins with "Once upon a time" and a War Story begins with "So, there I was" (HT to Old AF Sarge)
ReplyDeleteIvan is brave flying the Harrierski without a g-suit
ReplyDeleteForger was a 6G aircraft. With those itty bitty wings and tiny horizontal stabs good luck getting there, much less sustaining it.
DeleteRussia builds some pretty nice aircraft. Some duds too, but so to other countries. Read a great story on those Yaks, they seem to have performed a lot better than the western views on them tell.
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