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The Crazy Process of Landing US Massive A-10 in Middle of Highway
Youtube ^ | 31 Oct 2022 | Fluctus

Posted on 10/31/2022 3:58:53 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT

The Crazy Process of Landing US Massive A-10 in the Middle of Highway

Welcome back to the Fluctus Channel for a feature on the A-10 aircraft and several other important jets in the US Air Force.

(Excerpt) Read more at youtu.be ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: warthog
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To: DUMBGRUNT
Yes...I think I captured this one from "Flight of The Intruder"...

Eh. I could do a better job now, I should recapture it!

41 posted on 10/31/2022 6:27:14 PM PDT by rlmorel (Nolnah's Razor: Never attribute to incompetence that which is adequately explained by malice.)
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To: Bshaw

Yup, the big ol’ girl... One of the prettiest things I’ve ever seen (as a Navy guy)


42 posted on 10/31/2022 6:54:34 PM PDT by ro_dreaming (Joe Biden is the dementia riddled, no-filter grifter he's always been - just now, we get to see it.)
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To: rlmorel
Thought you, of the many posters here, might like that one!

Yes I do. I much preferred working fighter types, A-10s, F-15s, F-16s, T-38s. They did exactly what we told them to do, when we told them to do it. F-35s and F-22s, were not yet in the inventory, when I retired. I worked heavies at Travis. They were big and slow, but it seemed to take forever to follow instructions. We had parallel runways, end to end. We used to run the fighters 500 feet over top of the heavies. It was exciting. 🤪🤗🤭

43 posted on 10/31/2022 6:55:44 PM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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To: ro_dreaming
"Since the Antonov got blowed up in Ukraine, the C-5M is the biggest in the world."

Have you forgotten about the AN-124 airplane?

Antonov An-124 Ruslan

"The Antonov An-124 Ruslan (Ukrainian: Ан-124 Руслан; Russian: Антонов Ан-124 Руслан, lit. 'Ruslan'; NATO reporting name: Condor) is a large, strategic airlift, four-engined aircraft that was designed in the 1980s by the Antonov design bureau in the Ukrainian SSR, then part of the Soviet Union (USSR). The An-124 is the world's 2nd heaviest gross weight production cargo airplane and heaviest operating cargo aircraft, behind the destroyed one-off Antonov An-225 Mriya (a greatly enlarged design based on the An-124) and the Boeing 747-8.[4] The An-124 remains the largest military transport aircraft in service.[5] The lead designer of the An-124 (and the An-225) was Viktor Tolmachev.[6] "


44 posted on 10/31/2022 7:02:15 PM PDT by blam
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To: Mark17

Yes, I recall-you were ATC?


45 posted on 10/31/2022 7:17:20 PM PDT by rlmorel (Nolnah's Razor: Never attribute to incompetence that which is adequately explained by malice.)
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To: Mark17

LOL, of course you were ATC, it is only in your tagline!


46 posted on 10/31/2022 7:28:15 PM PDT by rlmorel (Nolnah's Razor: Never attribute to incompetence that which is adequately explained by malice.)
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To: rlmorel
Yes, I recall-you were ATC?

Affirmative sir 🤪 I forgot to mention, C-130 drivers, were almost as responsive as fighter pilots. It’s the heavy pilots that caused us problems. It was exciting, however, running fighters, in the over head pattern, 500 above the heavies, in the conventional pattern.
Vietnam, was an absolute nightmare. Sometimes I miss ATC, and other times, I wonder how I survived as long as I did.

47 posted on 10/31/2022 7:32:00 PM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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To: DUMBGRUNT

A MASSIVE landing ...

https://youtu.be/wi58Ds3Krgw

((sorry, not really related to your thread but it is funny))


48 posted on 10/31/2022 7:37:38 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Vote Democrat and stay on the plantation!)
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To: Mark17

Thank you for your service, and Welcome Home sir!

Funny-I can see how in the “old days” that must have been a hair-raising job, but I always thought that with computer programs available now that it must be less so.

Until, of course, I consider they might be running on Windows which could blue-screen at any time, just to keep things...spicy!


49 posted on 10/31/2022 7:38:07 PM PDT by rlmorel (Nolnah's Razor: Never attribute to incompetence that which is adequately explained by malice.)
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To: rlmorel

I retired in 88. We didn’t use computers at all. The centers did, to generate IFR clearances. They might use computers more now, but I just don’t know exactly what they use now. They still use radar. When I was in, we were using broadband radar. Now, they use narrow band radar. It’s pretty nice. I have been out of the loop so long, I don’t really know how they are doing it now, but the computers don’t control the aircraft. The controller still does it.


50 posted on 10/31/2022 7:52:48 PM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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To: myprecious
If it appeared in your rear view mirror as you are driving along the highway, it would be massive.

Some have.

I used to commute through a training area for them and have had them in my rear view mirror, low over me, and one day, beneath me and in front.

A mile back, not massive.

Approaching close, massive.

Passing by, beneath, maybe 100 yards away, kind of big.

Beneath was from Indian Head, an rock formation at the south end of Franconia Notch in NH.

Two A-10s flew by me about 100 yards out and 100 yards below.

I think one of the pilots and I saw one another as he glanced up just as he went by.

51 posted on 10/31/2022 8:06:06 PM PDT by Mogger
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To: AF_Blue

Fat Albert is what we called the C-5 in the Air Force, like Warthog is to A-10, not the name of one plane.


52 posted on 10/31/2022 8:07:19 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Rush, we're missing your take on all of this!)
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To: Mark17

That’s interesting. It seemed to me an area that would have exploited computers, and even AI, but...knowing what I do about them...er, maybe not!

Very interesting though.


53 posted on 10/31/2022 8:08:40 PM PDT by rlmorel (Nolnah's Razor: Never attribute to incompetence that which is adequately explained by malice.)
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To: VeniVidiVici

Very nice thank you.


54 posted on 10/31/2022 8:29:00 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ( "The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last messa)
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To: Jonny7797

Let’s hear it for Ike.


55 posted on 10/31/2022 8:43:20 PM PDT by Retain Mike ( Sat Congfwdude)
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To: blam

Didn’t the Antonov get blowed up?

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/antonov-an-225-largest-plane-destroyed-ukraine-scli-intl/index.html


56 posted on 10/31/2022 9:39:03 PM PDT by ro_dreaming (Joe Biden is the dementia riddled, no-filter grifter he's always been - just now, we get to see it.)
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To: ducttape45

In the early to mid 90s my office was near Dobbins AIr Reserve Base, which is co-located with a huge Lockheed-Martin facility. Of course, this was the plant that built the C-5, and every now and then one would show up. They were pretty amazing on final approach, they were so big they seemed to move so slowly they must fall out of the sky. Of course they didn’t, but the size really affected your perception of motion.


57 posted on 11/01/2022 2:03:54 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: ducttape45

Agree, but it does have a BIG GUN. smile.


58 posted on 11/01/2022 3:59:18 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: csvset

Ship into the wind and underway helps.

That is a Huge bird to land on a carrier.


59 posted on 11/01/2022 4:27:13 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: ro_dreaming
"Didn’t the Antonov get blowed up?"

The only AN-225 did. There are many AN-124's.

60 posted on 11/01/2022 5:03:22 AM PDT by blam
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