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Old 11-20-2004, 12:53 PM   #1
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A-10 Thunderbolt "WartHog" Damage Pics....

Here is a sequence of an A-10 Warthog and some anti-aircraft damage... Notice that the pilot is a WOMAN........
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Old 11-20-2004, 09:20 PM   #2
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Now if that ain't one tough plane, I don't know what is!
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Old 11-23-2004, 09:53 PM   #3
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Heres some more pics....
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nice pics.............
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Yeah, good one les
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Old 11-24-2004, 05:04 PM   #6
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Heh! The holes remind me of an old car I had. (I loved that car )

That's an impressive score, painted on the side.
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Old 11-25-2004, 03:58 PM   #7
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Old 11-25-2004, 06:24 PM   #8
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A-10 is one of my fave planes
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SOme more nose art, some of them I took myself....
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Cool!
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The "Lakanuki", the "Boss Hog" and the "War Pig" I have seen in a book about nose art. The might have been copyrighted
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Nice shots! I saw the first set a while back, but the second set I had not seen before. The A-10 original name was the Thunderbolt II. Fitting since the P-47 was about as rugged.
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And no one mentions that the first one has a helicopter kill...
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Old 01-06-2005, 08:04 PM   #14
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Downloading now...I'm always up for some tankbusting.
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