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I have been a long time fan of the A-10 ever since I watched two of them dip down and fly below my level in the quarry at Stewartby before coming back up and flying through the chimneys. The impressive part was we did not hear them coming until they were on top of us.

Used to watch them flying around Davis-Monthan and heading out/back over the Pima Range in Arizona, whisper quiet till overhead.

Definitely never want to be on the receiving end. Amazing how tight these things can turn.

My Daughters boyfriend is a JTAC in the RA and he was telling me when they call them in the A-10 pilots still use binoculars at times as they can't see pass the nose so they come in on a angle, aquire the target and turn in sharply.I remember seeing two of them open up on the range at Warminster years ago and its not something you forget, it was an awesome sight.

Ah yes, my favourite plane and the stuff of my childhood, given the growing up at the foot of RAFs Bentwaters and Woodbridge.

Me too, where did you live? We lived in Tunstall for many years. I went to school at Eyke and Butley. I have a 30mm A10 dummy round on my desk.

I used to love hearing the high pitched whine of the A10 turbofans, but the ground shaking roar of the F4's was too much and it was constant!

User702 wrote:Ah yes, my favourite plane and the stuff of my childhood, given the growing up at the foot of RAFs Bentwaters and Woodbridge.

I spent a very interesting day here http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/ some years ago. The A10 was an awesome sight.

Regards JCS

watched them many times at RAF Donna Nook whilst testing other things on the range , scary firepower , they would annihilate the target barges offshore . That and watching Harriers screaming over the beach on approach to the bombing range , as you say , almost silent on approach.

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ovenpaa wrote:I have been a long time fan of the A-10 ever since I watched two of them dip down and fly below my level in the quarry at Stewartby before coming back up and flying through the chimneys. The impressive part was we did not hear them coming until they were on top of us.

I think flying one up a chimney would be the more impressive part

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.