A-10 "panel check" videos

^^ Now that's what war should look like.

Nice videos. How bad must it suck to be on the receiving end of that?

I love that sound..

yeah my favorite also.

I read once that the happiest man alive is an A10 pilot with a full magazine heading for the range.

I was born and raised not too far from that area. I spent a lot of time out on that range (I'm assuming it's the Barry Goldwater) when it was cold, and sometimes when it wasn't. You couldn't go 5' of the road without tripping on training munitions. I still have a 30mm projectile laying around somewhere that I picked up out there.

And yes, before the safety nazis show up, I realize now how terribly dangerous that was. Having come across enough UXO (and worked with EOD to get rid of it) in the past several years, I realize how friggin lucky I was to have survived those excursions. In defense of my teenage years however, I only picked up stuff that was blue (haha).

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Originally Posted by baglock1

I was born and raised not too far from that area. I spent a lot of time out on that range (I'm assuming it's the Barry Goldwater) when it was cold, and sometimes when it wasn't. You couldn't go 5' of the road without tripping on training munitions. I still have a 30mm projectile laying around somewhere that I picked up out there.

And yes, before the safety nazis show up, I realize now how terribly dangerous that was. Having come across enough UXO (and worked with EOD to get rid of it) in the past several years, I realize how friggin lucky I was to have survived those excursions. In defense of my teenage years however, I only picked up stuff that was blue (haha).

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Ugh, I'm sorry.

And to think they were going to retire that batboy before the Iraq war? One of the best airframes in service.

As an ex 11B, I prefer a Specter over a hog...But hog is good!

http://www.youtu.be/2H1uvmdAPoM

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Originally Posted by LigersRCool

Those are awesome!
When I was stationed at Camp Humphrey's in Korea, Osan AB A-10s would do "practice/pretend" strafing runs on the airfield there. (or thats what we all thought they were doing). If we happened to be at the motor pool that day they looked like they were coming in for attack runs on you while your doing a PMCS on your vehicle.

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My sister is married to an AF Officer, and they're currently stationed at Osan. So I visited her last July and got to see some Warthogs! Very cool!