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.
An Avro Shackleton that crashed on July 13, 1994, in the Western Sahara. The plane, carrying 19 people, was flying from South Africa to the U.K. when two of its Rolls-Royce Griffon engines failed.
IIRC, they say Arabs stripped the smooth white sides of the Giza pyramids to help build the mosques. I see a few metal bits missing, so I wonder what architectural wonders the locals have created from this...
Similarly, the Lady Be Good a B24D was believed to have been lost—with its nine-man crew—in the Mediterranean Sea while returning to its base in Libya following a bombing raid on Naples on April 4, 1943. However, the wreck was accidentally discovered 710 km (440 mi) inland in the Libyan Desert by an oil exploration team from British Petroleum on November 9, 1958. A ground party in March 1959 identified the aircraft as a B-24D.
They made a 'made for TV' movie called 'Sole Survivor' out of that. It had Richard Basehart in it as the sole survivor of the crash, and the villain. The crew was represented in ghost form, as the plane was discovered and the investigation proceeded, some 30 years later.
So many different airplanes from different countries during WWII. You could always identify the Itanian planes because they had hair under the wings. - Snakepit
An Avro Shackleton that crashed on July 13, 1994, in the Western Sahara. The plane, carrying 19 people, was flying from South Africa to the U.K. when two of its Rolls-Royce Griffon engines failed.
ReplyDeleteIt looks as if it landed on the desert - did they all survive it?
DeleteGet James Stewart on the scene STAT!
ReplyDeleteHe would rebuild the the plane, the plane.
DeleteIIRC, they say Arabs stripped the smooth white sides of the Giza pyramids to help build the mosques. I see a few metal bits missing, so I wonder what architectural wonders the locals have created from this...
ReplyDeleteSimilarly, the Lady Be Good a B24D was believed to have been lost—with its nine-man crew—in the Mediterranean Sea while returning to its base in Libya following a bombing raid on Naples on April 4, 1943. However, the wreck was accidentally discovered 710 km (440 mi) inland in the Libyan Desert by an oil exploration team from British Petroleum on November 9, 1958. A ground party in March 1959 identified the aircraft as a B-24D.
ReplyDeleteThey made a 'made for TV' movie called 'Sole Survivor' out of that. It had Richard Basehart in it as the sole survivor of the crash, and the villain. The crew was represented in ghost form, as the plane was discovered and the investigation proceeded, some 30 years later.
DeleteWilliam Shatner played the chief investigator.
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ReplyDeleteSo many different airplanes from different countries during WWII. You could always identify the Itanian planes because they had hair under the wings. - Snakepit
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