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Reply #15 - Mar 9^th, 2011 at 5:04pm

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Skunkworks wrote on Mar 8^th, 2011 at 7:34pm:

But when you condense it into a post, it really makes you think, "thunderbolt and lightning, very very frightening".

A lot of jolt to the bolt...

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Reply #16 - Mar 9^th, 2011 at 8:47pm

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As most of you know, I am a Marine, and as some of you know, every Marine is a rifleman. So in my book, any plane designed around a gun as beastly as that is sexy in my book! Cool

I am a huge fan of the Hog as it is a very close friend of us ground pounders when we need close air support. The strafing capabilities are amazing and the wing load out can disable an enemy bunker/tank/any other scary thing we might encounter in a heartbeat.

Nice post!

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Reply #17 - Mar 9^th, 2011 at 9:04pm

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Very cool post!! The A-10 is one of my all-time favorites. If I had my 20s to re-live, I'd go straight from high school to the Air Force, where I would make a complete nuisance of myself until they stuck me in an A-10 and ordered me to shred stuff on the ground. Let the others have the fighters- nowadays you rarely even see your target in a dogfight, or when dropping smart ordnance on ground targets. the A-10 is for making stuff go away when you point the airplane at it, while sneering at pathetic small-arms fire. I love that. Cool

However, despite the bit of humor, it really does belong here, not in the Lounge.
Don't worry- the many Lounge visitors will still be directed to your awesome post, which is so awesome I will turn a blind eye to the many pictures therein (besides, it won't really work in Photos). Wink

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Reply #18 - Mar 9^th, 2011 at 9:22pm

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beaky wrote on Mar 9^th, 2011 at 9:04pm:

Very cool post!! The A-10 is one of my all-time favorites. If I had my 20s to re-live, I'd go straight from high school to the Air Force, where I would make a complete nuisance of myself until they stuck me in an A-10 and ordered me to shred stuff on the ground. Let the others have the fighters- nowadays you rarely even see your target in a dogfight, or when dropping smart ordnance on ground targets. the A-10 is for making stuff go away when you point the airplane at it, while sneering at pathetic small-arms fire. I love that. Cool

However, despite the bit of humor, it really does belong here, not in the Lounge.
Don't worry- the many Lounge visitors will still be directed to your awesome post, which is so awesome I will turn a blind eye to the many pictures therein (besides, it won't really work in Photos). Wink

No problem Sean, I wasn't sure where to put it.

And I completely agree with your "if I could go back" statement. Smiley

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Reply #19 - Mar 10^th, 2011 at 10:30am

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I have always had a softspot for A-10s. I grew up just north of New Orleans, where a squadron is based, and lived on a low altitude military training route. Almost everyday two A-10s would come by low level at the same time. Even today I remember that sound.

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Reply #20 - Mar 10^th, 2011 at 4:58pm

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Back in the late 80's I had a chance to attend an Air Show at Buckley AFB that was put on by the USAF. They had a Warthog there, and I was able to get close up to the Avenger.
The gun had a Flash Suppressor mounted to it, and I was able to take my thumb and place it inside one of the barrels with room to spare; Man, was that 30mm BIG! Shocked

Another nice thing is that like her old comrade in arms the A-7 you could mount AIM-9 Sidewinders to her and be able to fire them, in a pinch.

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