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“In questions of science the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.” Galileo Galilei African Pilot’s aircraft of the week identification quiz No prizes, but can you identify this aircraft? Last week’s aircraft proved to be difficult for some readers. Please send your answers to me and notRead more

“At least one way of measuring the freedom of any society is the amount of comedy that is permitted, and clearly a healthy society permits more satirical comment than a repressive, so that if comedy is to function in some way as a safety release, then it must obviously deal with these taboo areas. ThisRead more

“Character assassination is at once easier and surer than physical assault and it involves far less risk for the assassin. It leaves him free to commit the same deed over and over again and may, indeed, win him the honours of a hero in the country of his victims.” Alan Barth African Pilot’s aircraft ofRead more

“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we have been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We are no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It is simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves that we have been soRead more

“As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.” J. Robert Oppenheimer African Pilot’s aircraft of the week identification quiz No prizes, but can you identify this aircraft? Please send yourRead more

“I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.” Thomas Jefferson African Pilot’s aircraft of the week identification quiz Mystery Aircraft: The Diamond D-JET is a composite,Read more

“The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights…In fact, a fundamental interdependence exists between the personal right to liberty and the personal right in property.” Justice Potter Stewart African Pilot’s aircraft of the week identification quiz No prizes, but can you identify thisRead more

“As long as man remains an inquiring animal, there can never be a complete unanimity in our fundamental beliefs. The more diverse our paths, the greater is likely to be the divergence of beliefs.” Sir Arthur Keith African Pilot’s aircraft of the week identification quiz Mystery Aircraft Fouga CM.88 Gemeaux: As a primarily a flyingRead more

“Liberty is the prevention of control by others. This requires self-control and therefore, religious and spiritual influences; education, knowledge, well-being.” Lord Acton African Pilot’s aircraft of the week identification quiz No prizes, but can you identify this aircraft? Last week’s aircraft proved to be difficult because so many respondents identified aircraft as the well-known RussianRead more