Instead Of Retiring, Marine Vet Starts His Own Harrier Squadron

Foxtrot Alpha ^ | 05/22/2015 | Tyler Rogoway

[sukhoi-30mki]

[ClearCase_guy]

Hopefully someone can do this for the A-10.

[jsanders2001]

That’s so bada$$...: )

[onedoug]

Planes of Fame

[MrEdd]

Yup.
The Harrier is an awesome plane to watch, but in the 90-91 war the A10 blew it away as a close air support platform.

A10s give me a warm fuzzy feeling. They’re better than kittens.

[Paladin2]

That was my exact thought upon reading the article.

[real saxophonist]

Couple of thoughts, since I'm up way too early. I was a Marine Corps Aviation Officer Candidate for a very brief time, until they found out my eyeballs weren't any good. Oh well, I enlisted as a Bandsman. But the Harrier would have been my first choice.

To demil an A-10, they'd have to take the gun out, and it's basically an airplane built around the gun. Have to put ballast in there to keep the handling characteristics the same. Though I love the A-10, not much point in having one without the gun.

[ClearCase_guy]

Oh, I’d like to see a citizen with an A-10 with a gun. It would discourage noisy neighbors.

[PeterPrinciple]

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[PeterPrinciple]

a follow-up on the aarp source. and this should scare people. Propaganda analysis worksheet.

http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/worksheets/poster_analysis_worksheet.pdf

[OK Sun]

Thanks. The video was great.

[knarf]

And By God Patriotic !!

Y'know ... there's a whole BUNCH'A P-51 Mustangs out there .... DAMNED good warriors ...

Just sayin'

[USNBandit]

That’s living on the edge. The Harrier is a scary machine.

[knarf]

I suspect (I’m no aviation guy nor former Marine, but I am an Army vet), the problems MAY have been the dispersion of duties as opposed to a dedicated team with love in their hearts

[mabarker1]

Sweet!!

Speechless Ping

[USNBandit]

No, it’s a scary machine with a really high mishap rate. The only dispersion of duties was trying to get enough flight time to be current when the jets are constantly down for maintenance. a lot of Harrier guys were getting third world amounts of flight time compared with their conventional tac air counterparts.

[OK Sun]

His comment about Marine air supporting the infanty reminded me that during my (short) time in the Army, I served several months with USAAVNS. We wore the above hat pin to remind us and the student pilots that our total mission was to support the "Best"--the infantry.

I hope Army Aviation still carries on that tradition.

[MikeSteelBe]

I’m not sure what version that is. I know that the original Harrier’s performance was heavily watered down to make it safer due to the number of accidents.

“One a day in Tampa Bay” was a phrase used to describe the many crashes of the B-26 Marauder during training.

Veteran pilots loved the plane for its performance, but noobs had a tough time handling it.

[DesertRhino]

Lots of ways to demil that gun without removal.

[Glennb51]

It would be legal in Arizona.