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.
Kingman is a boneyard full of small airliners mothballed since Covid, now. See also Pinal Air Park NW of Tucson. I remember well the Navy boneyard at Goodyear west of Phoenix in the 1960s - makes me cringe thinking of all the aircraft destroyed there.
Yeah, if you are in the Tucson area a visit to the Pima Air Museum and a drive around the perimeter of the boneyard at Davis Monthan Is a must. Back in the mid-90’s I was curious as to all the different tail insignias and airline logos on the planes at Pinal Air Park. I pulled off of I10 and drove out to the gate bur was turned away by guards carrying AR’s. Wouldn’t even let me take a photos.
I once worked at Boeing with a guy, Ted, who'd been a small child in Germany during the war. A group of us went to the Boeing Air Museum and we saw a large mural of a B-17 raid over Germany painted from the p.o.v. of one of the aircraft. Ted stood looking at it for a few moments, then bent over sideways as if to be looking upward at the flight. He stood back up and commented, "Ja, those are B-17s alright." He'd seen a lot of them from that angle. Ho, boy,
The young men who flew these planes in WWII were a breed apart. For a great read on their experiences see "Luck of The Draw" By Frank Murphy. The story of the "Bloody 100th" and the men he flew with.
Made Zippos and razor blades out of the lot of them.
ReplyDeleteZippos and razor blades are made out of stainless steel, B-17's were made out of aluminum.
DeleteKingman is a boneyard full of small airliners mothballed since Covid, now. See also Pinal Air Park NW of Tucson. I remember well the Navy boneyard at Goodyear west of Phoenix in the 1960s - makes me cringe thinking of all the aircraft destroyed there.
ReplyDeleteYeah, if you are in the Tucson area a visit to the Pima Air Museum and a drive around the perimeter of the boneyard at Davis Monthan Is a must.
ReplyDeleteBack in the mid-90’s I was curious as to all the different tail insignias and airline logos on the planes at Pinal Air Park. I pulled off of I10 and drove out to the gate bur was turned away by guards carrying AR’s. Wouldn’t even let me take a photos.
I once worked at Boeing with a guy, Ted, who'd been a small child in Germany during the war. A group of us went to the Boeing Air Museum and we saw a large mural of a B-17 raid over Germany painted from the p.o.v. of one of the aircraft. Ted stood looking at it for a few moments, then bent over sideways as if to be looking upward at the flight. He stood back up and commented, "Ja, those are B-17s alright." He'd seen a lot of them from that angle. Ho, boy,
ReplyDeleteThe young men who flew these planes in WWII were a breed apart. For a great read on their experiences see "Luck of The Draw" By Frank Murphy. The story of the "Bloody 100th" and the men he flew with.
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