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.
Could be a Tempest due to the smaller chin radiator scoop, but it has the protruding exposed wing cannons…therefore maybe an early model Tempest B prior to final production model…
Spitfire Mk Vc with the Vokes air filter as used by the Desert Air Force in Africa. Also used to defend Malta and Australia (without the red center!) Al_in_Ottawa
Typhoon or Tempest
ReplyDeleteAs Churchill said, "SpitFah"!
ReplyDeleteWhen you try that maneuver in a Cessna 140 it does not go quite like that.
ReplyDeleteAh.
DeleteSpoken like an ol' boy with some experience.
Could be a Tempest due to the smaller chin radiator scoop, but it has the protruding exposed wing cannons…therefore maybe an early model Tempest B prior to final production model…
ReplyDeleteSeafire.
ReplyDeleteSpitfire Mk V with tropical air filter
ReplyDeleteSpitfire Mk Vc with the Vokes air filter as used by the Desert Air Force in Africa. Also used to defend Malta and Australia (without the red center!)
ReplyDeleteAl_in_Ottawa