Warthogs!
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.
Warthogs!
Ping.
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.
If you don't get to hear the "gun song", it ain't an A-10 demo, IMO...
We get the A-10 at the Chino CA. airshow next weekend. My house is right under the Flight Path as the planes loop around back to the Airport after a pass. Nice show with many Mustangs, P-38’s, Corsairs, Mitchell’s and so on. Get a Mitsu now and then, I think only a couple are still flying. Last year the Northorp flying Wing (1942) made an appearance which is housed in the Chino Airports Planes of Fame Museum.