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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
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... |
Awesome.
The day I arrived at Kadena was the last day the last SR-71 was there. We were on the tarmac processing in and the Blackbird just kept doing fly-bys. One of the last, if not the last, was a high speed fly-by, and boy could that bitch move for such a huge plane. Loved seeing the SR-71 in action.