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.
Those P&W Wasp's were an astounding manufacturing effort.
ReplyDeleteI imagine it weighs about the same as the rest of the plane from the wings back. Just guessing.
ReplyDeleteThe mechanics get all the nilla wafers they can eat for maintaining that beast!
ReplyDeleteThat engine is NOT original equipment.
ReplyDeleteI was wrong. They put the 4-row, corn-cob engine is a few after March of 44
DeleteQuadruple Wasp LOL
ReplyDeletePratt & Whitney R-4360 which weights around 3,700 pounds and puts out 4,300 horsepower.
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