[MarineBrat]

Gotta love Warthogs! Here's a couple of pics I took back at the Edwards AFB show this year...

Maybe the coolest formation of the day, right over our heads.  Clockwise, from the top, the P-51 Mustang, F-15 Eagle, A-10 Thunderbolt II (Warthog), and the F-22 Raptor.

Notice something interesting about the Warthog.  It has a fake cockpit painted on its underbelly to help disguise its orientation.

The only two seater A-10 Thunderbolt II (Warthog) ever made.

[null and void]

Notice something interesting about the Warthog. It has a fake cockpit painted on its underbelly to help disguise its orientation.

The Canadians do that on their fighters as well.

[miliantnutcase]

What’s funny is that P-51 could outrun that A-10.

[zipper]

Yeah the enemy can’t see which side is up. They should paint one on the other end so they can’t see which way it’s going either!

It’s an old Warthog running joke to talk about how slow it is. The pilots who fly them know them all and can tell them the best.

[VaBthang4]

"Notice something interesting about the Warthog. It has a fake cockpit painted on its underbelly to help disguise its orientation."

The Canadaians started that with their F-18s. After someone in the USAF brightened up...we started doing it as well.

And I do not know if it is the same...but I have seen an all black A-10 two seater [test aircraft] with a clear canopy, used to display geared up, precision night attack variant. Dont know whatever came of it though...