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.
Sunday, January 4, 2026
Regia Aeronautica Can't Z501s. Wild looking beasts. Couldn't be any airworthy nowadays, right?
Handsome lines, not the typical fat Amy style of the era.
ReplyDeleteIs that a gun turret behind the engine?
ReplyDeleteAl_in_Ottawa
a foto in this vid shows a rear firing gun mounted.
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Loud boredom or complete terror. I wonder if any of the aircraft ever got back to base and found the top turret empty?
DeleteBeautiful Italian machinery.
ReplyDeleteTo contrast, look at any British Blackburn aircraft.