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Originally Posted by Lee Stewart
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There can never be too many pictures posted of the A-10! What an incredible aircraft!
We used to go down to Camp Atterbury in southern Indiana to watch the live fire testing of these, typically along with A-7's and F-4's in the mid to late 80s. When they were being scored on their firing they would typically make two passes at the target. I always called the A-10 the Corvette of fighter jets because after the F-4 and A-7's would make their first pass they would bank hard to come around for the second pass and they would almost go out of sight due to the large arc they had to take. The A-10's though would make a firing pass, bank hard and turn and in 15-20 seconds they were right back on target for their second pass! The others took around a minute to come back around. And when they fired that 30mm gun! You'd see the smoke pour out of the front of the plane, THEN hear that sound! It was goose bumps the whole time! I'll never forget that.