Another credit to the designs of John Moses Browning.
BBC News - Spitfire redux: The WWII guns firing after 70 years buried in peat
BBC News - Spitfire redux: The WWII guns firing after 70 years buried in peat
The machine guns will now be made safe and join the rest of the aircraft on permanent display in Derry...
Hey you survived a plane crash and 70 years buried in the dirt but now we're going to cut you into pieces in the name of "public safety".
Stupid Brits
Hey you survived a plane crash and 70 years buried in the dirt but now we're going to cut you into pieces in the name of "public safety".
Stupid Brits
Putting those historic relics in a museum would seem to be a logical move.I was just ready to quote that line.
They could have said "The guns will now be rendered inoperable...".
What does making them safe mean? The guns were making Britains safe were they not?
Wouldn't we? Five minutes after the first shot was fired the media would be showing dead Americans and talking about an "unjust war of aggression" and Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid would be whining about bringing the troops home...Sadly, "stupid Brits" is about right. If that country were to face another Adolf Hitler today they would lose.
Oh, I'm sure Nancy and Harry would be right in the thick of it all right. But I'll bet I could find a forum full of folks who would be ignoring them. Just my guess.Wouldn't we? Five minutes after the first shot was fired the media would be showing dead Americans and talking about an "unjust war of aggression" and Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid would be whining about bringing the troops home...
Rumor has it that a half dozen or so completed P-47 Thunderbolts were buried somewhere near the Evansville plant when the contract was cancelled at the end of WWII.
Those Spitfires were beautiful war birds!
Just thinking about firing that 70 year old machine gun sends chills up my spine.There's something very special about all the hardware our heroes,.... parents, and grandparents used during the war. I get the same feeling touching and firing the old WWll military firearms I own.