Warthogs!
Posted on 04/25/2018 10:46:09 AM PDT by huldah1776
Here goes (enjoy):
https://www.dvidshub.net/feature/A10DemoTeam
schedule:
http://www.acc.af.mil/Home/Aerial-Events/A-10-Demonstration-Team/A-10-HF-Schedule/
FaceBook:
https://www.facebook.com/A10DemoTeam/
cockpit view video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OY5BBUx8WX4
LiveLeak video:
https://www.liveleak.com/view?i=076_1520004780
You could sit in your Trench and hold up a match and you could light it on it’s belly
I honestly believe the A-10 is so macho it could fly with no engines and no wings.
That was my thought ,, to truly demo the A-10 they should have one sitting on the runway and have a crew come out with sawzalls and cut off half a wing , half the tail and throw rocks into one engine... and then do a full attack program.
Been a long time since I heard that lol
Warthogs!
Ping.
“I honestly believe the A-10 is so macho it could fly with no engines and no wings.”
Didn’t Obama and his ass kissing military sycophants try and do away with this magnificent aircraft?
The A-10 puts on a great show. It almost always does the show tight over the runway unlike the fast movers. It can turn in a radius that appears to pivot on a wing.
Republic Aircraft P-47 "Thunderbolt"
Built in greater quantities than any other US fighter, the P-47 was the heaviest single-engine WWII fighter to go into production and the first piston-powered fighter to exceed 500 mph. The Thunderbolt performed 546,000 combat sorties between March of 1943 and August 1945 and is considered the real forerunner of today's multirole fighters.
[Well regarded for its ground attack ability and protection of its pilot, especially in the ETO.]
The Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II (aka "Warthog")
Note the nose stinger, the noisy but effective 30 mm GAU-8 Avenger rotary cannon, when the need is to reach out and touch the bad guys! Does a GREAT job of pilot protection as well and still flies with lots of damage!
i flew countless missions with the A10 Tank Killer when i was a young man in my 20s... i loved that video game.
The P-47 was nicknamed “The Jug”.
Sadly yex. Unsurprising given his hate for gha US and the miki6.
I would love to see that. They used to fly over low and slow when I was hanging out the wash before Desert Storm. Willow Grove closed though.
The P-47 had a reputation for being one tough fighter aircraft. There’s a story out of World War II where a pilot had done a ground strafing run but he was little too low and before he knew it he was headed straight for a brick wall. The fighter crashed through the brick wall and kept on flying. Matter of fact, he made it all the way back to base with no problem. Like I said, the P-47 was one tough aircraft.
If you don't get to hear the "gun song", it ain't an A-10 demo, IMO...
Only "game" I've ever allowed to run on my machines. Wore out several joysticks on it.
I have the User Manual here beside me as I type this... '-)
BTW, do you know of a similar (or improved, by now) A-10 flight simulator that will run on modern 32/64 bit machines?
I flew A10 Tank killer... been looking for a retro simulator for a while to no avail... will look for A10 Attack too.
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