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.
Crazy that good pilots can land one of those half-on a mountain top for a pickup. Or ackschually in the water for a Zodiac pickup; open back hatch, splash, zoom up right in the back, liftoff and back to base.
That's the doggie chopper that the Marines called their version a "Phrog."
ReplyDeleteSorry . . . this is a CH-47 Chinook. The Marines fly the CH-26 Sea Knight.
DeleteSimilar configuration, but very different birds.
Typo: CH-46. And yes, they are very different despite similar appearance. Army CH-47 carries about twice the load of the Marine/Navy CH-46.
DeleteWasn't it one like that that crashed and killed some firefighters?
ReplyDeleteCrazy that good pilots can land one of those half-on a mountain top for a pickup. Or ackschually in the water for a Zodiac pickup; open back hatch, splash, zoom up right in the back, liftoff and back to base.
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