Simviation Forum - Cool... A-10 intercept video

Jun 27^th, 2006 at 10:43pm

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Read the caption before speculating... this was a voluntary practice thing. Didn't know you could volunteer for this... maybe I'll visit an MOA soon for a private airshow! Wink

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRwwDwQVq2M&search=fighter%20pilot

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Reply #1 - Jun 27^th, 2006 at 10:49pm

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Jetwash force > Lightweight Cessna.

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Reply #2 - Jun 27^th, 2006 at 10:52pm

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Wow, cool video, thanks rotty!

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Reply #3 - Jun 28^th, 2006 at 2:11am

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You can volunteer for an intercept?

*raises hand*

"Oooh! Oooh! Pick me!"

*hand as high as muscles/bones/gravity/general laws of physics will allow*

"Pleeease! Over here! Pick me!"

*falls out of chair, hand still raised*

"PIIIIICK MEEEEEE!"

Willow Grove NAS routinely flies A-10s by my airfield, and if you fly for too long off of runway 6, you've busted military airspace-perhaps I'll create my own intercept situation Grin

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Reply #4 - Jun 28^th, 2006 at 2:32am

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That is the coolest thing I have seen in a long, long time. Great find Rotty! Shocked

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Reply #5 - Jun 28^th, 2006 at 7:47am

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That is the coolest thing I have seen in a long, long time. Great find Rotty! Shocked

Thank one of the gang at the AOPA forums... Grin

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Reply #6 - Jun 28^th, 2006 at 8:31am

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Now that was cool! Cheesy

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Reply #7 - Jun 28^th, 2006 at 6:36pm

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I was once used as a ground target by a flight of A-10's once whilst traversing across a field in a tractor. Grin

Did you notice the comment about the 23mm gun? Actually, it's a 30mm.

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Reply #8 - Jun 28^th, 2006 at 7:52pm

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You can volunteer for an intercept?

*raises hand*

"Oooh! Oooh! Pick me!"

*hand as high as muscles/bones/gravity/general laws of physics will allow*

"Pleeease! Over here! Pick me!"

*falls out of chair, hand still raised*

"PIIIIICK MEEEEEE!"

Willow Grove NAS routinely flies A-10s by my airfield, and if you fly for too long off of runway 6, you've busted military airspace-perhaps I'll create my own intercept situation Grin

(joking of course Tongue

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awesome video. surprised to see the flares with a piston banger so close to them. very cool! 8)
(edit, forgot the t in piston)

LOVE THE GROVE!!!! i got a video of me flying over wings field in chopper 6 Grin

was a few weeks ago. A-10's, C-9's, and C-130s routinely fly near my house in their extended final approach.

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Reply #9 - Jun 28^th, 2006 at 11:23pm

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Awesome Video!!!

Just imagine what a couple rounds from the 30mm would do to a Cessna!! Goodnight Irene!!! Grin

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Reply #10 - Jun 29^th, 2006 at 12:34pm

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LOVE THE GROVE!!!! i got a video of me flying over wings field in chopper 6 Grin

was a few weeks ago. A-10's, C-9's, and C-130s routinely fly near my house in their extended final approach.

Cool! We've got a couple of news choppers based out of Wings (low fuel prices)

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Reply #11 - Jul 2^nd, 2006 at 10:38pm

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Nice, would volunteer for somethig like that... Grin

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Reply #12 - Jul 4^th, 2006 at 1:08am

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Awesome Video!!!

Just imagine what a couple rounds from the 30mm would do to a Cessna!! Goodnight Irene!!! Grin

Well considering WW2 footage of stronger planes being shredded by smaller shells... yeah ouch.

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Reply #13 - Jul 4^th, 2006 at 12:51pm

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Well considering WW2 footage of stronger planes being shredded by smaller shells... yeah ouch.

Yep... even without explosive rounds, that gun would slice up a Cessna like a hot knife through butter. It's like a fire hose of death.
On second thought, maybe I don't want one of these things near me in flight... Grin

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Reply #14 - Jul 6^th, 2006 at 3:43pm

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Cool video, I can imagine after that A10 driver got back, what his crew chief might be thinking about all the missing flares.

I remember I was backpacking many years ago, I got close to the summit of a mountain and a sailplane pilot was giving us a show as he was catching some mountain updrafts. He got so close, we could clearly see his face.

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