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jaybird_1981 said:
Yeah I think so I don't know much about them I was an intel guy. We had the one track vehicle and had a couple 11B's to drive it in our section. But just about all of us got licensed on it before we deployed just in case.
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Interesting... you had infantry to drive the track I’d figure that was an armor MOS 🤷‍♂️
 
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NorthDallas40 said:
So you see all that smoke from the muzzle when the gun is firing?

When the A-10 fires the GAU-8 30mm cannon the airplane slows for two reasons.

One the force of the recoil has a deceleration affect on the aircraft.

Two, and more important, the smoke is choking out the engines 😂 the fix was when the guns fire the hit the igniters on the engines to immediately re-light them.

Good thing it only carries a few seconds worth of ammo at a continuous firing usage.
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Another interesting fact about the A-10 is that there is an entire autopilot system called Enhanced Attitude Control designed to keep the aircraft stable during the insane forces on the vehicle as a result of the recoil from the GAU-8. Basically, it enables the pilot to keep guns on the target without the aircraft losing control.

The A-10 is an amazing feat of engineering.
 
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hjeagle1vol said:
Not 1st ***... we did work
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My brother flew F-106s and F-15s at Tyndall and Langley (94th) - kinda weird two tours at each. He really liked both planes - didn't even mind the O-2 as a FAC in Panama in between or the EB-57 as a first assignment. However, when he got paired up with an Army unit in Korea, he wrote and asked me if I had been out of my mind years earlier when I quit UT and joined the Army.
 
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Matt2496 said:
Another interesting fact about the A-10 is that there is an entire autopilot system called Enhanced Attitude Control designed to keep the aircraft stable during the insane forces on the vehicle as a result of the recoil from the GAU-8. Basically, it enables the pilot to keep guns on the target without the aircraft losing control.

The A-10 is an amazing feat of engineering.
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Tank on wings ..
 
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AM64 said:
My brother flew F-106s and F-15s at Tyndall and Langley (94th) - kinda weird two tours at each. He really liked both planes - didn't even mind the O-2 as a FAC in Panama in between or the EB-57 as a first assignment. However, when he got paired up with an Army unit in Korea, he wrote and asked me if I had been out of my mind years earlier when I quit UT and joined the Army.
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Lol good question from your bro but 👊🏻🇱🇷
I was 33rdFW and 48th ourt of England before going to Seymour Johnson and E-mods. My unit was Khobar Towers
 
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hjeagle1vol said:
Lol good question from your bro but 👊🏻🇱🇷
I was 33rdFW and 48th ourt of England before going to Seymour Johnson and E-mods. My unit was Khobar Towers
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493rd at Lakenheath by any chance? That was my dad's WW2 squadron - he only flew a few combat missions late in the war when they were in France and Belgium. They trained at Tullahoma - that's how he met my mother.
 
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AM64 said:
My brother flew F-106s and F-15s at Tyndall and Langley (94th) - kinda weird two tours at each. He really liked both planes - didn't even mind the O-2 as a FAC in Panama in between or the EB-57 as a first assignment. However, when he got paired up with an Army unit in Korea, he wrote and asked me if I had been out of my mind years earlier when I quit UT and joined the Army.
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You guys need to get a hanger lol



j/k enjoy learning about jets
 
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VolnJC said:
You guys need to get a hanger lol



j/k enjoy learning about jets
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I promise to knock it off. It's just an interesting topic to me, and could have been so much more interesting if the military didn't take such a dim view of nearsighted people - sure ruined the career path I had picked out by the time I was 6.
 
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AM64 said:
493rd at Lakenheath by any chance? That was my dad's WW2 squadron - he only flew a few combat missions late in the war when they were in France and Belgium. They trained at Tullahoma - that's how he met my mother.
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48th FS at my time 1999 -2002. I worked in an underground bunker for 3 years in England weather. When I wasn’t deployed. That’s an amazing story!
I love then kinship!
 
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AM64 said:
I promise to knock it off. It's just an interesting topic to me, and could have been so much more interesting if the military didn't take such a dim view of nearsighted people - sure ruined the career path I had picked out by the time I was 6.
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The Marines also hate those of us allergic to bee stings...I would have been retired by now
 
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