The history of flight is already long. And nothing goes without gasoline. To save precious gasoline, you can sometimes even be pulling a car by a horse.
Douglas C-47A Skytrain., a photo by tormentor4555 kindly sent to my group BLOG IT!, click on the picture to enter his galleries on Flickr.com
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title=”Door paard getrokken taxi” “horse-drawn taxi” – originally uploaded by Nationaal Archief, Netherlands, kindly sent to my group BLOG IT!, click on the picture to enter the archive on Flickr.com
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Gives horsepower a whole new meaning 🙂
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but what, dear Seonaid, could we learn from this? our forefathers, did not know how to pull an airplane by horse through the sky if the fuel tank was empty; only painters knew how to solve the problem: there are many pictures featuring a horse race with wings, called PEGASUS, we all know, thanks to the clever old Greeks!
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between pegasus and helios with his chariot, the greeks loved horses. And sometimes, when there’s no fuel anymore, like during wars, horses are our friend….so don’t eat horse* :p
(and other animals 😉 )
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you maybe know, my dear French friend, that especially in wars the German bastards ate their horses, though the horses had carried them on their backs till the idiots had reached their Stalingrad.
P.S.:
movie:
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If only it was only the “germans”…. during napolean era, french had their stalingrad. And in 1st world war….every war has human victims but so many animals too.
war horse was a good movie….
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There is little that can compare to a horse-drawn romantic ride. I prefer the pretty, white, made-for-horse-drawn-carriage, carriages…..but, I am a hopeless romantic. 😀 Loved this!!
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So much more reliable!
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Amazing that with all this technology, some still need to return to the greater reliability of horses.
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