Just saw two Warthogs fly over Littleton headed east. EFFIN awesome!!!! I am so happy they are on our side. Otherwise we'd be in deep shit!!
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Just saw two Warthogs fly over Littleton headed east. EFFIN awesome!!!! I am so happy they are on our side. Otherwise we'd be in deep shit!!
damn i wish i was at work to have fun with them
I thought I heard somthing, but never saw them. [Bang] One of my favorite planes. A-10 Thunderbolt!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Robby30-06
don't forget the airshow is next weekend in Broomfield
I think I just...... uh.... gotta go![Censor]
Let me finish that for you. [Puke]Quote:
Originally Posted by sneakerd
After I got back from DS1 there was a group that would fly NOTE over my house in KS every weekend for about 5 months.
One of my neighbors said that he thought the sound was awful. I explained that when one was on the ground standing on sand that it was the best sound ever.
There is nothing like the sound on an A-10 close in. Just like thunder I could go to sleep by that sound.[Flower]
Saw two of 'em doing strafing runs in Korea during an exercise in 1982 (Cope something-or-other...slips my mind now).
I'll never forget the sound of that gun.
A-10 Warthog/Thunderbolt - The only plane ever built around a Gatling gun.
Around 5pm I saw what looked like a plain white F-20 Tigershark fly over south Aurora heading north
I wonder if one of'em was this one [ROFL1]
http://i418.photobucket.com/albums/p...7-13203605.jpg
Great...now the cannon won't fire because you stuck your finger in the end of the barrel.
(Great pic, BTW!)
and other planes of interest:
http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s...ionandhold.jpg
http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s...nertakeoff.jpg
http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s...satairshow.jpg
http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s...4atoakland.jpg
http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s...ighmilitia.jpg
http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s...y/C17atROA.jpg
http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s...gatairshow.jpg
http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s...satairshow.jpg
http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s...patairshow.jpg
http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s...7atairshow.jpg
http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s...satairshow.jpg
http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s...atairshow2.jpg
http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s...satairshow.jpg
more:
http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s...30satKSWF2.jpg
http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s...-17atKSWF1.jpg
http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s...glesatSAV2.jpg
http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s...FlightsInc.jpg
http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s...y/Spitfire.jpg
http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s...8slanding3.jpg
http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s...rollingout.jpg
http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s...wkchopper2.jpg
http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s.../twinF-18s.jpg
http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s...DevilsF-18.jpg
http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s...tary/F-165.jpg
http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s...tary/F-166.jpg
http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s...romtherear.jpg
http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s...fterburner.jpg
http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s...tary/F-167.jpg
oh yeah...back to the A-10! and of course my favorite WWII: P-51
http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s...BQairshow5.jpg
http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s...BQairshow4.jpg
http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s...BQairshow3.jpg
http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s...BQairshow2.jpg
http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s...BQairshow1.jpg
http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s...ABQairshow.jpg
Great pix Sniper7 thanx.
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Originally Posted by sniper7
http://www.gilfether.com/wp-content/...5/FuckYeah.jpg
Pretty sure we have exceeded the bandwidth.
Want to know how to fly it? There's a simulator called DCS A-10 that ships with a 700 page manual and (they say) is an accurate representation of every feature on the ship. Here's the sequence to get the engines running:
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Less than 10 years ago BATF requisitioned 8 of them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Robby30-06
Funny that he started after lunch and had to turn on cabin lights half way through the startup process due to outside lighting conditions. [Coffee]Quote:
Originally Posted by Hoosier
The rifling on those barrels are like cheese graders. I can't remember how many grooves were there, but the rifling were deep and sharp as hell.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bailey Guns
Air Force guys get all the cool toys[Ban3]
I think that pretty much solves the "what caliber has the most stopping power" debate.Quote:
Originally Posted by sniper7
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That depends, can I wear two layers of denim and a hoody? [ROFL2]Quote:
Originally Posted by Bailey Guns
Sorry for your loss.Quote:
Originally Posted by HBARleatherneck
That being said hating the A10 for that is a lot like hating guns because someone stupid did something stupid with one once. It's not the weapon's fault as it just does what the person controlling asks it to.
Saw some carrier based F-15 Eagles and FA-18 Hornets in several photos. They weren't shot this far inland, were they?
No such beast, as far as I'm aware.Quote:
Originally Posted by tactuppernut
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There was actually a study to see if that would be feasible in the early 70's. The F-15N was the variant. I don't think it wen't anywhere nor do I believe it was ever produced or tested. Could be wrong on that, though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hoosier
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Thought f-15's were Navy birds, shows you what I know.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hoosier
They do. Obviously a mistake was made. It's unfortunate and tragic but it happens. There's probably no punishment in the world worse than having to live with a mistake like that.Quote:
Originally Posted by HBARleatherneck
I don't know the details of the incident but I do know that things look different at 2 or 3 hundred miles per hour and a few thousand feet (or so) of altitude. Not to mention having to manage everything else inside the cockpit.
The F-16 above with the brightly colored tail was one of my old unit's, along with the CO tail -16s shown later. The tail was done that way for the Tiger Meet of the Americas, a more local variant of the famous Tiger Meet of NATO. I'll see if I can find any more pics of its predecessors, they were full coverage. The first was covered with black tiger stripes (Dragon miniatures did a diecast model of this one), and the second was covered with black/orange/red tiger stripes. The one in the pic was third in the series. We also had one bird that was painted red and silver as a commemorative of the Colorado Air Guard's Minuteman Team, the only ANG flight demo team that ever existed. They stopped flying shortly after the Thunderbirds began. Hm, what interesting timing....
And although there were never any Navy 15's, there were Navy 16's. F-16N's, if memory serves there were around 30-ish of them. They were Block 30 aircraft, right around the same production as the CO F-16's pictured above. The Navy used them as aggressor aircraft for Top Gun and other training. They retired them after a fairly short lifespan due to some structural issues they chose not to address (the Air Force just modded them and kept on going) but I think there's one still sitting at Miramar near where the Top Gun hangar was, out at a street intersection.
Navy got a few "new" F-16's a while back. There were some Block 25's sitting at Davis-Monthan (AKA "the Boneyard") that were supposed to go to Pakistan years ago, whoever the Pres at the time was denied them the export license so they just got parked and stored. They finally just gave them to the Navy, after they sat for about 20 years. Brand new, operationally...
Well lots of AF planes DO have tailhooks. No idea why. Perhaps if they were needed in a pinch, sorta like the Doolittle Raid...
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ting_cable.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi..._Tail_Hook.jpg
I thought AF birds landing gear wasn't strong enough for Navy needs. Also the Navy requires two engines on everything? Well I guess they're making an exception for the F-35, so maybe that rule has gone out.
I do love the F-16, such a pretty plane. Always reminds me of the P-51, with the bubble canopies and underscoop air intakes.
There's one scene in Terminator: Salvation with some A-10's overhead that's impressive.
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