“Legislators and revolutionaries who promise equality and liberty at the same time are either psychopaths or mountebanks.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Since last week’s mystery aircraft was rather easy to identify, I was disappointed in the number of correct answers that reached my desktop. This week I have provided another interesting aircraft type. Please sendRead more
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“In the state of nature, all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it and they recover it only by the protection of the law.” Charles de Montesquieu Seabird Seeker 2 (Information from Wikipedia) The Seabird Seeker is a light observation aircraft built originally by Seeker AviationRead more
“Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business and eventually degenerates into a racket.” Eric Hoffer Since last week’s mystery aircraft was relatively easy to identify, according to the number of correct answers I received, this week I have provided another interesting aircraft type. Please send your answers to me at editor@africanpilot.co.za. IRead more
“I do not trust my eyes to tell me what a man is: I have a better and more trustworthy light by which I can distinguish what is true from what is false: let the mind find out what is good for the mind.” Lucius Annaeus Seneca The Douglas XB-42 Mixmaster was an experimental AmericanRead more
“The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle’s own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.” Aesop Since last week’s mystery aircraft was relatively easy to identify, according to the number of correct answers I received, this week I have provided another interesting aircraft type.Read more
“Some who are too scrupulous to steal your possessions nevertheless see no wrong in tampering with your thoughts.” Khalil Gibran Miller JM-2 racing homebuilt (Information from Wikipedia) The Miller JM-2 was an American Formula One Air Racing homebuilt aircraft that was designed by Jim W Miller and produced by JW Miller Aviation of Marble Falls,Read more
“If the political correctness fascists get their way, we can safely assume it will be correct thinking, ‘political cleansing’ squads deciding what we can or cannot say on the Internet. These people fear public debate and demand homogenisation of ‘acceptable’ attitudes compatible with their emotional, utopian idealism.” Charles W. Moore Since last week’s mystery aircraftRead more
“Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.” Aldous Huxley Anderson Greenwood AG-14 (Information from Wikipedia) Anderson Greenwood’s sole aircraft design was a collaborative effort of three engineers: Ben Anderson, Marvin Greenwood & Lomis Slaughter Jr. The name of the last member of the design team was not includedRead more
“It was not the tycoons of big business, it was not the working classes, it was the intellectuals who reversed the trend toward political freedom and revived the doctrines of the absolute State, of totalitarian government rule, of the government’s right to control the lives of the citizens in any manner it pleases. This time,Read more
“Most of the major ills of the world have been caused by well-meaning people who ignored the principle of individual freedom, except as applied to themselves and who were obsessed with fanatical zeal to improve the lot of mankind-in-the-mass through some pet formula of their own. The harm done by ordinary criminals, murderers, gangsters andRead more