A-10 wings all done.

Famous last words.

 

Not when you watched them change.

 

So, no, to taking a bunch of Spads (AD 1) out of mothballs and installing turboprops????

Probably aren't any left... maybe in 'nam...

When I think of the Skyraider, I remember one of my favorite movies from my childhood, and now... "The Bridges at Toko-Ri". Great footage. (Also Sikorsky H5 if you like them.)

 

History is replete with those who don't learn.

I'm sure you recall the time when it was declared that only air-to-air missiles would be needed for aerial combat. As they say, the rest was history.

 

Jim- If they had been more reliable, who knows?

 

Maybe some day they'll convert the A-10s to unmanned aircraft.

 

Flying the A-10 is really a giant exercise in energy management. Sure the jet can do 6-7gs but you need to make sure that that turn was how you wanted to lose all of your energy (airspeed). A lot of time can be spent in the 4-5g range but little time is spent in higher g.

 

Jim- Affirmative, and you have to have lots of airspeed to even get near 7.5 G. Like you said, too, once you pull that 7.5 G, you are out of airspeed.

 

You very likely know better than I, but I think the disk on any helicopter is like a dog’s balls to a Doppler radar...can’t miss ‘em!

 

Is it really that easy to accidentally fire one of these from an A10? No hikers in the area at least.

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/fighter-jet-accidentally-fires-rocket-a-10c-thunderbolt-ii-fires-m-156-rocket-in-arizona/

 

At least it landed in the dirt.

I remember when one F-15 pilot accidentally blew the tail feathers off of another F-15.

http://www.f-16.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=14890

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Depends on whether it was an electrical malfunction or crew error. Normally, he would have to turn on the Master Arm switch and then hit the pickle button, so it takes two errors to fire off a rocket. You never can tell, though. I puked out a couple of flares on the end of the runway at Taif RSAB during Desert Storm. Normally not possible with the squat switches preventing that and the switches in manual dispense mode, but it happened. Sure lights up the area at night.