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Originally Posted by GloryDayz
A tip of the cap to ya Sir... I agree. I was Navy, and the one thing I'd say about the A-10 drivers was that they were welcome in my house any day. They were some bad-ass dudes in a bad-ass plane.
And when you need help, and it's umbrella weather (so many of the other guys want to stay inside), the A-10 were their adding to the rain.
Bad-ass dude, BAD-ASS!!
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Did you know that if you strapped the vulcan cannon from a Warthog to the top of your car, put it in neutral and then laid on the trigger you'd get from 0-60 in about 3 seconds?
https://what-if.xkcd.com/21/
They had to upgrade the engines during testing because the force from the cannon was putting the plane at stall speeds.
I got to fly alongside (and by alongside, I was probably 20 miles out) a couple of A-10 while I was in a Cesna 172 coming into the private airport in Oklahoma City. It was awfully cool even sharing the same sky with those guys. The only thing comparable was when I was driving into Whitman for my JAG interview and they had one of the Spirits landing. It flew right over top of my car as I was coming into the base and with flaps down and being that low in the air, the thing absolutely looked like a hovering alien spacecraft. It was completely surreal. I got to go drive the flight line with the base JAG officer; man it was cool. Earlier in that week someone taxiing one had smashed a wing into the garage and really messed it up. Gotta figure that left a mark on their record...