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Posted on 04/11/2003 4:30:37 PM PDT by TXnMA
Edited on 04/13/2004 3:30:55 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Air Force Capt. Kim Campbell assigned to the 23rd Fighter Group was flying over Baghdad in her A-10 Warthog fighter jet when it was hit by enemy ground fire.
Large chunks of her plane shot away, the hydraulic control system dead, Air Force Capt. Kim Campbell pushed and pulled at a backup set of manual controls, struggling to keep the anti-tank aircraft from crashing as it limped away from an ambush over Baghdad.
(Excerpt) Read more at bayarea.com ...
(I found this earlier article about the three A-10s being hit, but nothing about "Captain Killer Chick"'s heroic effort to bring her wounded 'Hog home...)
Photos of Capt KC's plane can be seen at www.a-10.org.
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Ain't no big thing - it's called manual reversion, and they practice it all the time. Makes it sound like she had to use a different set of controls on the aircraft, she uses the same stick and rudder.
Still and all, good on her for bringing it home.
It would be nice if they painted on little tanks on the nose of the plane for every one taken out, but I'm sure that her's would look too cluttered.
Let him know what you think right here!
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