I took these a couple weeks ago out at Gila Bend, AZ. Kinda crappy video, but still pretty cool.
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I took these a couple weeks ago out at Gila Bend, AZ. Kinda crappy video, but still pretty cool.
Damn..thats one low warthog in the last video!!!
PS.. i WANT your job!
Badass
It would be a lot more exciting if they were shootin'. Couple a nice low passes.
Very cool! Thanks for sharing those.
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.
I also saw some during basic at Ft. Lost in the Woods, Drills made us sit on some bleachers and watch tree lines. They were off in distance, but they would come over trees and fire with the gatling guns (guessing at target boards/old tanks huge treeline in way). Sounded like a giant fart ripping. A-10 is one of my favorite planes..just ahead of the F-14 and F-4.
Ok hold on a minute. I have a couple that I'll upload, but they kinda suck. Standby.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bailey Guns
The A10 has to be my favorite plane still in service followed closely behind by the F18.. The rest are just ho-hum..
Very cool! My son said you can't have your lower until you get him that close to one!Quote:
Originally Posted by Sharpienads
What percentage of power would you guess they were flying by at?
Oh man, I have no idea. They seem to fly at the same speed all the time: Slow. IF we didn't have ridiculous budget cuts, I could probably get you guys down to Airburst Range to see some F-16s, but not A-10s. But they don't fly a whole lot anymore. No money.Quote:
Originally Posted by 10mm-man
As a DS vet the A-10 was our favorite plane. Nothing sounds like them.
DS vet?Quote:
Originally Posted by jerrymrc
Desert Storm.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sharpienads
Saddam's tanks stood no chance....Quote:
Originally Posted by jerrymrc
The 'highway of death'
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When I first moved to Syracuse in 1987, the NY Air Nat Guard there flew A10's, you'd see them flying around a lot. Known as "The Boys From Syracuse". They had a firing range upstate, but I never got to see anything. After a few years they switched to F16's. I "heard" those F16's had gun pods with the GAU-8 gun in them, but I never saw any proof or heard it again.
Oh, right. I was just making sure you knew [Flower]Quote:
Originally Posted by jerrymrc
Ok, here are some more. First two are rockets, last three are 30mm.
F-16s have a M61A1 20mm gun.Quote:
Originally Posted by rondog
GAU 13 pod you meant. It's a smaller 4 barrel version of the same 30mm. GAU13/GPU5/A was meant to be belly carried by F16, but due to its excessive vibration and faster moving F16, it was impossible to have a good accuracy. A-10 is still the only true flying gun.Quote:
Originally Posted by rondog
Does that bring back memories. After they pushed everything to the side there were the marks in the road from the A-10's. There would be holes then a gap then holes then a gap........Quote:
Originally Posted by bogie
I am not THAT old. Alzheimer's has not got to me yet.[LOL]Quote:
Oh, right. I was just making sure you knew [Flower]
^^ 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).
Ugh, I'm sorry.Quote:
Originally Posted by baglock1
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
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!Quote:
Originally Posted by LigersRCool
After DS, I spent some time at a Kuwaiti base with our F-16's and a unit of A-10's from DM. I remember four things in particular about that trip...the A-10's couldn't fly during most of the daylight hours, because it was so hot they couldn't take off loaded; I remember one of the guys sliding in to home during a softball game and uncovering a UXO (that was our last softball game); the Kuwaiti camel spiders (much larger and more active than the Iraqi ones I saw) and noticing that CBU's leave a really distinctive eye with eyebrow mark when they detonate on a taxiway.
And Rondog, the Boys from Syracuse fly Predators now. They traded in their F-16's about three years ago. A friend of mine was in that unit. I have several friends who used to be in F-16 units, before F-16 units started to become rare.
Before they shutdown Chanute AF Base, they had an air show every year and I will never forget the first time I heard one of those and was able to watch it take off. That is one of the coolest damn planes I have ever seen.
Thanks for posting the videos. A-10s are one of my most favorite planes.