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.
Sometimes I am amazed that those prop blades are sufficient to pull the beast through the air. I know the engineering, yet still I think it a wonderment.
Developed from the Lancaster, designed for longer range so it could bomb Japan as part of Tiger Force. It became operational just after the atomic bombs were dropped. Al_in_Ottawa
Sometimes I am amazed that those prop blades are sufficient to pull the beast through the air. I know the engineering, yet still I think it a wonderment.
ReplyDeleteFrom the front it looks a lot smaller, and that's the part that matters to the props.
Deletel'd commute in that
ReplyDeleteHo estly, all WWII British heavy bombers look alike to me. As if they kept issuing the same specs over and over to everyone who ever built a plane.
ReplyDeleteThat plane's nose looks like the monster that attacked Sigorney Weaver in that old movie, "Alien."
ReplyDeleteDeveloped from the Lancaster, designed for longer range so it could bomb Japan as part of Tiger Force. It became operational just after the atomic bombs were dropped.
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