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.
I'm probably wrong, but isn't a "stagger wing" with the lower wing forward of the upper wing? https://www.platinumfighters.com/inventory/1943-beechcraft-d-17s-staggerwing/
Stearman PT-17 aka the Kaydet. Built by the thousands in WWII to be primary trainers and used by barnstormers and crop dusters afterwards. Biplanes with the top plane behind the bottom plane are rare. In WWI there were the Airco/DeHavilland DH5 and the Sopwith Dolphin, the only commercial aircraft I know of is the BeechCraft 17 which was one of the first executive aircraft. Al_in_Ottawa
I'm probably wrong, but isn't a "stagger wing" with the lower wing forward of the upper wing? https://www.platinumfighters.com/inventory/1943-beechcraft-d-17s-staggerwing/
ReplyDeleteBeautiful, wish I could purchase an hour or so of prop time.
ReplyDeletePeter is correct. Still a beautiful plane. Ken
ReplyDeleteStaggerwing/Beechcraft museum in Tullahoma TN is well worth the visit!
ReplyDeleteCan verify, especially if you bring the grandkids.
DeleteAlso, the Jack Daniels distillery tour.
Stearman PT-17 aka the Kaydet. Built by the thousands in WWII to be primary trainers and used by barnstormers and crop dusters afterwards.
ReplyDeleteBiplanes with the top plane behind the bottom plane are rare. In WWI there were the Airco/DeHavilland DH5 and the Sopwith Dolphin, the only commercial aircraft I know of is the BeechCraft 17 which was one of the first executive aircraft.
Al_in_Ottawa