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To: Don Corleone

As a career fighter pilot (A-10 and F-15E), have flown low level in special use airspace, but for day to day ops, nope, grounded for sure.

The Navy has different rules but they aren’t THAT different.

It’s just a movie, entertainment, and like all fiction, suspending disbelief is required.


12 posted on 06/10/2022 7:37:50 AM PDT by Hulka
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To: Hulka; Don Corleone

In the 90s, I flew a little navy T-34 prop trainer and pulled only 4gs doing vertical and horizontal rolls. Didn’t hurl but was close. I can’t even imagine what you guys feel in an A-10 or F-15E.


25 posted on 06/10/2022 8:00:52 AM PDT by LittleBillyInfidel (This tagline has been formatted to fit the screen. Some content has been edited.)
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To: Hulka
I guess when permission is granted for those kind of maneuvers the pilots take full advantage.


26 posted on 06/10/2022 8:03:03 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Hulka

When I was in the Army, I was stationed at Fort Wainwright and went to the winter air crew survival course at Eielson Air Force base. Most of us were Army Air Force enlisted, I was a Huey Crew Chief, but we had two pilots with us, one was an F-16 pilot and the other was an A-10 pilot. Lots of good humored ribbing between them, as with the rest of us. (Sitting around a camp fire at -10 below everybody had a crazy flight story, I had a couple being in the 283rd Medivac). The A-10 pilot always had the best ones, and he was describing the A-10, he said the cockpit was like a titanium bathtub in shape, anyway he said the A-10 was a titanium bathtub with a bad ass airplane built around it and they added the gatling gun on it just to make it sexy. When I was in Desert Shield/Desert Storm (1st Cav.Fort Hood) whether flying or on the ground, there was nothing like the sound of the A-10’s rolling in and lighting up a target with that gatling gun. Saw a flight of a least four come rolling in on tanks and APC’s and various hard targets and vehicles, OMG!!! just awesome in their attack and just made mince meat of everything. Hands down the best attack aircraft ever built, along with my Huey, the Chinnook, probably the best aircraft ever made.


33 posted on 06/10/2022 8:16:38 AM PDT by Ponyexpress9790
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