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.
Rough-field/STOL capability made it an ideal craft for infiltration/exfiltration of covert agents, and picking up escaping prisoners in occupied countries.
Designed as an army cooperation aircraft to be used for artillery spotting. During the war the 'spy taxi' versions were painted flat black and had a ladder attached to the fuselage so the spy could climb aboard. https://www.vintagewings.ca/stories/flying-the-westland-lysander Al_in_Ottawa
Westland Lysander
ReplyDeleteThe Lysander is not the ugliest British airframe ever, but it makes the top 5.
ReplyDeleteRough-field/STOL capability made it an ideal craft for infiltration/exfiltration of covert agents, and picking up escaping prisoners in occupied countries.
ReplyDeleteDesigned as an army cooperation aircraft to be used for artillery spotting. During the war the 'spy taxi' versions were painted flat black and had a ladder attached to the fuselage so the spy could climb aboard.
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They also were built in Canada at the Victory Aircraft plant in Malton Ontario near Toronto.
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