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A Grateful American |
Most modern fighter aircraft (one and two engine) have about .35 to .95 thrust to weight dry, and 1.0 or better for fighter with after burner in use. The A-10 is around .35 so "two half engines", for a fighter. "the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא שוב! | |||
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Legalize the Constitution |
If that doesn’t produce results, google “laser designator.” This is from the Twitter feed for Airman Magazine. It's a great video and it addresses your questions pretty well, bendable. Pilot narrative Airman Magazine Video _______________________________________________________ despite them | |||
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SIG's 'n Surefires |
And for those that care, the A-10 program just got funding to continue rebuilding their wings. "How many more A-10s will get new wings still remains in limbo. Air Force officials have said the service can commit to maintaining wings for six of its nine A-10 combat squadrons through roughly 2030. "As far as exactly how many of the 280 or so A-10s that we have that we'll maintain forever, I'm not sure, that'll depend on a Department of Defense decision and our work with Congress," Holmes said. On the exact squadron number, he clarified, "It's not a decision that we have to make right away. It'll depend on what we have, what we need and what's useful on the battlefield year-to-year as we go through it." Of the 281 A-10s currently in the inventory, 173 have already been outfitted or are in the process of being outfitted with new wings (though one of the newly re-winged planes was destroyed in a crash), Stefanek said. That leaves 109 aircraft remaining in the inventory still slated to receive the upgrades, she said." https://www.military.com/dodbu...any-re-wing-10s.html "Common sense is wisdom with its sleeves rolled up." -Kyle Farnsworth "Freedom of Speech does not guarantee freedom from consequences." -Mike Rowe "Democracies aren't overthrown, they're given away." -George Lucas | |||
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Coin Sniper |
I wonder how many lives, the mere presence of this aircraft over the battlefield, has saved? Pronoun: His Royal Highness and benevolent Majesty of all he surveys 343 - Never Forget Its better to be Pavlov's dog than Schrodinger's cat There are three types of mistakes; Those you learn from, those you suffer from, and those you don't survive. | |||
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Yeah they're of the turbofan type, so no afterburners. | |||
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| Coin Sniper |
Great video... watch the compass to the right of the HUD when he fires the gun. Pronoun: His Royal Highness and benevolent Majesty of all he surveys 343 - Never Forget Its better to be Pavlov's dog than Schrodinger's cat There are three types of mistakes; Those you learn from, those you suffer from, and those you don't survive. | |||
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| A Grateful American |
That's just an in-flight compass swing. Pay no attention to that...  "the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא שוב! | |||
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Seeker of Clarity |
We towed a trailer to Myrtle Beach every summer in the 1970s and 80s. Camped basically right at the beach just over the dunes. I used to run out for EVERY sticking one of their sortie flybys. At night, you could watch them popping flares out over the water. LOVE those planes. Always have, always will. It's my P-51 Mustang.  | |||
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Wait, what? |
The finest CAS platform ever. That unmistakable banshee wail must absolutely terrify anyone about to take rounds from that monster. “Remember to get vaccinated or a vaccinated person might get sick from a virus they got vaccinated against because you’re not vaccinated.” - author unknown | |||
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| Coin Sniper |
Seems like a little vibration there. Pronoun: His Royal Highness and benevolent Majesty of all he surveys 343 - Never Forget Its better to be Pavlov's dog than Schrodinger's cat There are three types of mistakes; Those you learn from, those you suffer from, and those you don't survive. | |||
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In my best Clarence the angel voice: "Every time a Haji terrorist asshole cries, an A-10 get its wings!" It's all about clean living. Just do the right thing, and karma will help with the rest. | |||
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Almost as Fast as a Speeding Bullet |
They are incredibly fuel efficient and much better performers down low. Also, the actual air inlet to the compressors is tiny compared to most fans I've seen and therefore much less likely to FOD out at the expense of not having nearly as good an ability to take in the thin air at altitude. ______________________________________________ Aeronautics confers beauty and grandeur, combining art and science for those who devote themselves to it. . . . The aeronaut, free in space, sailing in the infinite, loses himself in the immense undulations of nature. He climbs, he rises, he soars, he reigns, he hurtles the proud vault of the azure sky. — Georges Besançon | |||
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An interesting story about the A-10 being developed with help from a German WWII ace.... https://www.thedailybeast.com/...-forgotten-nazi-past IMO, there is much German Ordinance we could have used during Korean War. ********* "Some people are alive today because it's against the law to kill them". | |||
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| Political Cynic |
just a wee bit of compass shake...amazing that it stays on the pin [B] Against ALL enemies, foreign and DOMESTIC | |||
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| Political Cynic |
glad they are funding the wing replacement program I watch them fly in and out of DM every day love 'em if they can re-engine a B52, they can re-wing an A-10 [B] Against ALL enemies, foreign and DOMESTIC | |||
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MB AFB closed 20+ years ago, another victim of BRAC. I went down there 30+ years ago with my ANG wing, loaded our A-10s with live Mk 82s there. | |||
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goodheart |
From the video: SHIV is the call sign, "low-speed -- high drag" Love it. _________________________ “ What all the wise men promised has not happened, and what all the damned fools said would happen has come to pass.”— Lord Melbourne | |||
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