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Occasionally we get visitors here at the airport. I didn't take this picture but my co-worker was more than willing to share.
The A-10 is my favorite modern aircraft. If our government was smart, they'd be making a whole lot more of them; not putting them out to pasture.
V.
The A-10 is my favorite modern aircraft. If our government was smart, they'd be making a whole lot more of them; not putting them out to pasture.
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If I recall correctly, I read somewhere that said this a/c was built around the cannon. I don't know how true that is but I do know that it isn't called the Thunderbolt II for nothing. It was designed to take a lot of punishment and bring the pilots back alive, kinda like the P-47 Thunderbolt was designed to do.
The Army and the Air Force have fought a war since 1947 about who gets to use what in terms of flying things. The USAF is content for the Army to use rotorcraft, but if it has fixed wings it's theirs. They never really liked the A-10, because it fights too close to the ground where the Army is.
Interestingly, although the airframe was designed around its main gun, the actual concept was came from the drawing boards of Junkers Aircraft.
Interestingly, although the airframe was designed around its main gun, the actual concept was came from the drawing boards of Junkers Aircraft.
Similar in many respects but different in as many respects. It would have been interesting to have data on this aircraft's abilities other than conjecture. (Knowing Hitler, though, he would have wanted it to be an attack bomber thereby diminishing its abilities just like he did with the Me-262.)
lol many many bottles of oil, a spare sparkplug, and a for rent sign lol as well as some dead dead spiders. But all ALL the original paint is under the trunk lid untarnished by rust, the wiring for the trunk light is in tact, the springs for the trunk lid still work so you can open the thing with just the tips of your fingers, the hook for the spare tire is still there, and the bottom of the trunk seems mostly in tact as well!
Too much of a gear head, had to look at your page.....
Ooooff!!! That's gonna be one hell of a project car! At least it looks mostly straight and intact.... FULL interior, and personally I wouldn't trust a single wire you find in there to be good... so full wire harness.
As for the engine and transmission, if it's a manual transmission do a drain and fill, if you see LOTS of filings (the oil is sparkling), or there's CHUNKS of metal prolly cheaper to buy a new one. Automatic the same, but also if the oil is black and smells burned.
As to the oil bottles in the trunk and engine condition, given the overall condition of the car and the pics of the underhood I would do a compression test on all cylinders, and pull the valve covers and oil pan at the least and check the condition of the inernals (varnished, heat blued, broken/bent parts, ect). You might get lucky and have a running motor. Or you might have a mouse nest in #3...
Ooooff!!! That's gonna be one hell of a project car! At least it looks mostly straight and intact.... FULL interior, and personally I wouldn't trust a single wire you find in there to be good... so full wire harness.
As for the engine and transmission, if it's a manual transmission do a drain and fill, if you see LOTS of filings (the oil is sparkling), or there's CHUNKS of metal prolly cheaper to buy a new one. Automatic the same, but also if the oil is black and smells burned.
As to the oil bottles in the trunk and engine condition, given the overall condition of the car and the pics of the underhood I would do a compression test on all cylinders, and pull the valve covers and oil pan at the least and check the condition of the inernals (varnished, heat blued, broken/bent parts, ect). You might get lucky and have a running motor. Or you might have a mouse nest in #3...
Well heck thank you a lot for the support!!! I'm going to copy all of this down and go over it with my friend whose coming down to help me work on the engine! I welcome every ounce of help that I can get and I'm really glad you enjoyed the pictures! She's an automatic transmission but I'll be certain to look for those chunks of metal. Thank you so much! Do you know if Auto-Zone does tests for compression? Because I know there's some tests they do for free if you pull up.
It's in a way better shape that the only A-10 I saw: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/16832505/ ! Otherwise, I really like the angle.
The missile fired from 20 miles away will have no problem hitting it. They are woefully obsolete fighting a reasonably modern air force. Against $10 Taliban with 60 year old ak47s they are devistatingly effective but lose air superiority and they are hangar queens or suicide machines. They are great for killing poor brown people but up against India or China they would be challenged and a country like France or Russia they are slow moving targets they train newbie missile cadets to shoot down. Much like the B-52 they are not able to fight a modern war but then again we haven't been in a position to actually fight one in a very long time.
Love the hell out of the A-10.
After years of playing a flight simulator centered around the A-10 ("A-10 Cuba!" by Parsoft Interactive, now part of Activision), I actually got to see one up close and personal at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base a few years ago, and God was I astounded. Best encounter ever.
After years of playing a flight simulator centered around the A-10 ("A-10 Cuba!" by Parsoft Interactive, now part of Activision), I actually got to see one up close and personal at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base a few years ago, and God was I astounded. Best encounter ever.
The grunt's on the ground best friend or worst nightmare depending on what side you are on. The Russian Frogfoot was also designed around the gun as was this one. The Frogfoot has one advantage over the A-10 and that's the fact they can rearm it in about the same time as it take to refuel it. This is in part because they drop the whole gun and mag and replace it with a freshly loaded unit.
While the Jade-Helm exercise was going on out here, one of the locals said, "If one of them military assholes sets foot on my property, I'll shoot his ass."
I just looked at him and smiled, "Do you like warthogs?"
"What's that got to do with it?"
The DoD doesn't like it when you shoot at their boys, and you'll find out very fast what a warthog is."
Bunners
Of course, that assumes all the Cobra gunships are busy.
I just looked at him and smiled, "Do you like warthogs?"
"What's that got to do with it?"
The DoD doesn't like it when you shoot at their boys, and you'll find out very fast what a warthog is."
Bunners
Of course, that assumes all the Cobra gunships are busy.
No wonder there Vixyy in some aviation circles they know the stuff they have in inventory right now will hand the F-35 it's ass in a fight as will many other aircraft... The Chinese and Russians already have a system to find our "stealth" aircraft and ships. Yeah edge on they don't have much of a signature to radar but from above it's a wonderful target!
I laugh at the prospect of the F-35 replacing these. The F-35 couldn't possibly dish out the devastation and psychological effects this pig can dish out in one pass.
Some wonder what this thing can do that any ordinary fighter jet can't? Well, if a regular fighter tried to fly anywhere near as low and close as an A-10 does to lay it's hurting down, it'd stall and fall under it's own weight. While the A-10 can take off from a short and uneven runway at some butthole FOB, too far from any major base or carrier and assist friendlies nearby, I'll give the F-35 credit of not really needing a runway to begin with, but being a stealth aircraft with VTOL capabilities, it'd make for stellar maintenance and material replacement costs if they got damaged.
I heard that during a congressional hearing some months back, a spokesman for the Air Force kept trying to push retirement for the A-10, and a Marine Corps general said that if the Air Force wouldn't make a budget for the A-10, he'd gladly do so. Didn't help that one of the congresswomen there supported this, having flown one herself. The spokesman was literally speechless. Just further proves that the zeal for retirement is purely political.
Take what we've blown on the F-35 and invest in more of these bad boys. They're proven, certified hellraisers!
Some wonder what this thing can do that any ordinary fighter jet can't? Well, if a regular fighter tried to fly anywhere near as low and close as an A-10 does to lay it's hurting down, it'd stall and fall under it's own weight. While the A-10 can take off from a short and uneven runway at some butthole FOB, too far from any major base or carrier and assist friendlies nearby, I'll give the F-35 credit of not really needing a runway to begin with, but being a stealth aircraft with VTOL capabilities, it'd make for stellar maintenance and material replacement costs if they got damaged.
I heard that during a congressional hearing some months back, a spokesman for the Air Force kept trying to push retirement for the A-10, and a Marine Corps general said that if the Air Force wouldn't make a budget for the A-10, he'd gladly do so. Didn't help that one of the congresswomen there supported this, having flown one herself. The spokesman was literally speechless. Just further proves that the zeal for retirement is purely political.
Take what we've blown on the F-35 and invest in more of these bad boys. They're proven, certified hellraisers!
The problem is the tooling for the aircraft is rare now. Getting new parts for an aircraft designed in the 1970's is the main challenge. Not to mention that the manufacture was bought out 14 years ago.
The wings are high stress points and after production some tools were likely scrapped.
The wings are high stress points and after production some tools were likely scrapped.
There is another big reason the f-14 was grounded. Iran has around 14 of them and the U.S. does not want the aircraft parts on the market. A TV show said that the ground crews took some vital parts with them or damage them so baddy they were unusable when they had to leave Iran. This was just before they Shaw of Iran was dethroned.
Why yes, I do love that face!
I wish I had the ability to create a D model which would have new generation engines, not those ancient ones they use on the old CRJ100's but the new ones on the CRJ700 series that have upwards of 50% more thrust over the current. Do a bit of weight and balance, throw on a new wing, and put some 21st century avionics upgrades onboard... bam, you have another 30+ years out of the airframe!
I wish I had the ability to create a D model which would have new generation engines, not those ancient ones they use on the old CRJ100's but the new ones on the CRJ700 series that have upwards of 50% more thrust over the current. Do a bit of weight and balance, throw on a new wing, and put some 21st century avionics upgrades onboard... bam, you have another 30+ years out of the airframe!
Just look what the Russians have done to their Sukhoi Su-25 NATO name Frogfoot... It's about the same age as the A-10 and they are still making them and updating the older ones to the new standards. For the most part they have not done that to the A-10 all they have done is patch them up and keep them flying. Let's face it the Air Force doesn't want to be involved in ground attack because it's not "flashy" because it's grunt work. Two of the local pilots are former A-10 pilots and two of them are U-2/TR-1/TR-2 pilots they look at the F-35 and shake their heads call it a bastard's stepchild.
Here's my image taken back in 2011 of the Warthog.
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/16608725/
It's a lean, mean, fighting machine that'll ruin your enemy's day.
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/16608725/
It's a lean, mean, fighting machine that'll ruin your enemy's day.
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