Taken at the Wings over Houston airshow in 2011. Here we have one of the most feared war fighters ever created, the Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt, nicknamed "The Warthog". It's ugly, it's slow, it's everything that makes the US Air Force cringe... and the US Army cheer because it's a lean, mean, tank-killing machine. And you do NOT want to be seeing it from this direction while it's in flight, especially with that GAU-8 machine gun right there pointing at you.