A-10 Documentary

[HALODIN]

OK just up the coast from Aldeburgh, which I know pretty well. Yeh it's a nice part of the world.

Halodin, I spent most of my childhood in Rushmere, but spent a lot of it running around the Woodbridge part of the area. An awesome part of the country to grow up in.

[Chuck]

If you can get to it, this place is a good day out: but it maybe needs TWO days. So big I missed the space section .

http://www.pimaair.org/

[HALODIN]

I love air museums. Hendon is particularly good, the bf109g and the Stuka were particular favorites.

[Chuck]

RAF Cosford is also worth a look. Awesome standing under the Vulcan with the open bomb bay doors.

The Pima Museum has some of the old pilots from WW2 talking about the raids and the planes. The weird one was a pilot talking about a bombing raid on Brunswick in Germany - my old boy was stationed there after the war.

You can get your head inside the B17's on display, would not have liked to try and get out of those in a hurry!

[HALODIN]

You reminded me of this:

"German air traffic controllers at Frankfurt Airport are infamous for being ashort-tempered lot," an U.S. pilot notes. "So it was with some amusement that [aUnited 747] listened to the following exchange between Frankfurt ground control and thepilot of a British Airways 747 (BA 747, call sign Speedbird 206) "clear of the activerunway after landing at Frankfurt and headed to off load passengers at his designatedgate."
Ground: "Guten morgen, taxi to your gate." The BA 747 pulls onto the maintaxiway and stops.
Ground (brusquely): "Speedbird, do you not know where you are going?"
Speedbird: "Stand by ground, I'm looking up the gate location now."
Ground (impatient): "Speedbird 206, have you never been to Frankfurt before?"
Speedbird (coolly): "Yes, several times in 1944, but I didn't stop."

[Chuck]

:lol: :lol: :lol: Old but good!

[HALODIN]

[rufrdr]

Bit of rough language



Says that this is in Iraq but I am sure it is a bombing range in Nevada but still good images of A-10s



The A-10 is the infantry's friend





Pictures from an airshow I attended several years ago. When I was with the Army in Germany my garrison location would be periodically 'strafed' by A-10s who liked the neat rows of AFVs and trucks lined up to practice on. The maneuverability of the A-10 is astounding.

When the USAF said that they were going to retire the A-10 the first time around pre-2001 the Army said that they would abrogate the agreement that prohibits the Army from having fixed wing combat aircraft and take all the A-10s for themselves. the AF could stick to everything above 10,000 ft. The AF backed away from retiring them (fortunately) since it has been the most important fixed wing combat plane in both Iraq and Afghanistan.

[Chuck]

The usual brilliant photos,