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.
...first time I saw A10's was near Myrtle Beach, SC. A flight of 4 was skylarking about over the water. They turned so tight, might as well have been on a string. And the sound of the turbo-fans was music.
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ReplyDeleteNot the same with out the sound and cheers of the ground troops...
ReplyDeletethe ugliest plane, you'd ever fall in love with!
ReplyDeleteNice shootin Tex
ReplyDelete...first time I saw A10's was near Myrtle Beach, SC. A flight of 4 was skylarking about over the water. They turned so tight, might as well have been on a string. And the sound of the turbo-fans was music.
ReplyDeleteIt used to be great watching and listening to them practice on the range just north of Sierra Vista, AZ.
ReplyDeleteSaw one at the Geneseo Airshow a few years back. They have a maneuver they do in a low pass that is a high speed stall that sounds like a sonic boom.
ReplyDeleteBrrrrrrrrrt Be Thy Name.
ReplyDeleteAnd that's just a hint of what's to come.
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