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05-29-2004, 10:16 AM
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| thancks for telling me
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05-29-2004, 10:17 AM
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#92 | | the old Sage
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Country:  | tank with wings is the A-10 Hog | |
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05-29-2004, 10:48 AM
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| a 10 hog strange name
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05-29-2004, 11:50 AM
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Country: | Well it is really the A-10 Thunderbolt 11
The Warthog nickname is given it because it just looks that ugly 
What you get when you design a plane around a 6 barrel 30mm gatling gun  It is the grandson of the P-47!
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05-29-2004, 01:13 PM
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Country:  | actually erich we're talking about a russain glider tank..........
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05-30-2004, 11:13 AM
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05-30-2004, 08:10 PM
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Country: | No, he was refering to the A-10 Warthog. The modern day American tank-buster.
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05-31-2004, 01:07 PM
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#98 | | the old Sage
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Country: | sorry guyz for not making myself clear, the A-10 wass called a Hog by it's pilots. Have interviewed 2 pilots that kicked Iraqui butt some years ago in 1994 during the 50th anniversary of D-day and the taking of Rome | |
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05-31-2004, 04:56 PM
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Country: | Erich -I sort of said that. But then I hope the two pilots had some great stories.
The the 1991 Gulf War used the A-10 a lot even scored a kill over a helicopter.
Now we are getting off topic again, so I would say why not come back.
Affrica-the first test of the US Military. And the use of Navel fighters in support of the landings. Why not talk Wildcats flying in low over the Marines! Putting fire were they needed it the most. 
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05-31-2004, 10:52 PM
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| I know an A-10 pilot. He was twice decorated over the Gulf, one DFC and one Bronze Star.
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06-01-2004, 08:26 AM
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Country: | Naval fighters not Navel...we're not talking about belly-buttons here.
It wasn't really that hard for A-10s to achieve kills in the Gulf, with the Iraqis digging in their T-55/54s and T-72s. Plus the thousands of veichles on the road from Basra to Baghdad, which even as an aircraft technician my dad was paid to clean up the mess...that's right...burnt corpses. After all my dad was in Iraq, the closest to the problem...those CH-47s don't half look strange with sand filters and in the middle of desert with nothing but three tents beside them...
...back on to World War 2...I think...
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06-02-2004, 06:20 AM
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06-02-2004, 11:02 AM
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Country: | Since it's all opinion based this thread not surprisingly died long ago. The only reason I would want to fly in Europe would be to get my hands on a Me-262A-1a.
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06-02-2004, 11:50 AM
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06-02-2004, 12:53 PM
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| At what time of the war would you want to pilot a Hurricane C.C.?
I don't think I would have been big on flying any version of the 262 since the Allies virtually maintained standing patrols over its bases just waiting for one to take-off or land.
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