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Post by: DA98 on May 05, 2001, 12:34:00 PM: (http://www.a-10.org/photos/a10_15.jpg)
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Post by: Dmitry on May 05, 2001, 01:34:00 PM: Dont know about captioning but wondering what was the 3rd A/C that they took this cool pic from...

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Post by: LePaul on May 05, 2001, 02:18:00 PM: "The Knights new Gooney Decoy has turned many a Bishop and Rook into metal confetti..."

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Post by: Tac on May 05, 2001, 06:27:00 PM: amazing how things dont change. they are both ugly as hell... and its beauty comes from its uglyness (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
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Post by: XNachoX on May 05, 2001, 07:04:00 PM: What a Beutiful jug (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)

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Post by: Mighty1 on May 05, 2001, 08:07:00 PM: No I'm not cheating! It's just lag.

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Post by: Midnight on May 05, 2001, 11:42:00 PM: Ammo finally spends his perks to buy a plane even uglier than the D25 (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)

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Post by: bloom25 on May 06, 2001, 03:25:00 AM: It's interesting that at one time the p47 was one of the largest and heaviest fighter planes in the world, and now it looks tiny compared to the a10.

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Post by: Fishu on May 06, 2001, 10:27:00 AM: Quote
Originally posted by bloom25:
It's interesting that at one time the p47 was one of the largest and heaviest fighter planes in the world, and now it looks tiny compared to the a10.

I guess they dont care after low profile that much anymore (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)

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Post by: AG Sachsenberg on May 06, 2001, 12:11:00 PM: the plane that tok the pic was a F-15. We have those kind off flights over at my base but we have a p-51 instead.
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Post by: Maverick on May 06, 2001, 12:20:00 PM: What we have here is a "father and Son picture. The "son" is the result of the fathers youthful indiscretion with a saucy shop vacuum cleaner one night while imbibing too much 120 octane "joy juice".

Mav (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
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Post by: CyranoAH on May 06, 2001, 01:05:00 PM: Introducing... the new HO monster!
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Daniel, aka Cyrano
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Post by: AKDejaVu on May 06, 2001, 01:49:00 PM: Quote
It's interesting that at one time the p47 was one of the largest and heaviest fighter planes in the world, and now it looks tiny compared to the a10.

Think that is just an illusion of the Warthog being twice as close as the P-47. They are about the same size... Jug with a bigger fueselage and Warthog with wider wingspan.

AKDejaVu
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Post by: Fishu on May 06, 2001, 01:59:00 PM: Quote
Originally posted by AKDejaVu:
Think that is just an illusion of the Warthog being twice as close as the P-47. They are about the same size... Jug with a bigger fueselage and Warthog with wider wingspan.

AKDejaVu

...and with a bigger gun. (WV sized (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif))
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Post by: AKDejaVu on May 06, 2001, 02:00:00 PM: My mistake... guess the A-10 has it by about 12% in size (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/wink.gif):

Primary Function: A-10 -- close air support, OA-10 - airborne forward air control
Contractor: Fairchild Republic Co.
Power Plant: Two General Electric TF34-GE-100 turbofans
Thrust: 9,065 pounds each engine
Length: 53 feet, 4 inches (16.16 meters)
Height: 14 feet, 8 inches (4.42 meters)
Wingspan: 57 feet, 6 inches (17.42 meters)
Speed: 420 miles per hour (Mach 0.56)
Ceiling: 45,000 feet (13,636 meters)
Maximum Takeoff Weight: 51,000 pounds (22,950 kilograms)
Range: 800 miles (695 nautical miles)
Armament: One 30 mm GAU-8/A seven-barrel Gatling gun; up to 16,000 pounds (7,200 kilograms) of mixed ordnance on eight under-wing and three under-fuselage pylon stations, including 500 pounds (225 kilograms) of Mk-82 and 2,000 pounds (900 kilograms) of Mk-84 series low/high drag bombs, incendiary cluster bombs, combined effects munitions, mine dispensing munitions, AGM-65 Maverick missiles and laser-guided/electro-optically guided bombs; infrared countermeasure flares; electronic countermeasure chaff; jammer pods; 2.75-inch (6.99 centimeters) rockets; illumination flares and AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles.
Crew: One
Date Deployed: March 1976
Unit Cost: $8.8 million
Inventory: Active force, A-10, 143 and OA-10, 70; Reserve, A-10, 46 and OA-10, 6; ANG, A-10, 84 and OA-10, 18

Specifications:
Republic P-47D-25-RE Thunderbolt
Dimensions:
Wing span: 40 ft. 9.25 in (12.43 m)
Length: 36 ft. 1.25 in. (11.01 m)
Height: 14 ft 2 in (4.32 m)
Wing Area: 300 sq ft (91 sq m)
Weights:
Empty: 10,700 lb. (4,858 kg)
Operational: 19,400 lb (8,807 kg)
Performance:
Maximum Speed: 428 mph (689 km/h)
Service Ceiling: 42,000 ft. (12,810 m)
Range: 925 miles (1,488 km)
Powerplant:
One Pratt & Whitney Double Wasp , XR-2800-21 eighteen-cylinder two-row radial engine developing 2,000 h.p. for take-off and 2,300 h.p. at 31,000 ft. with turbo-supercharging.
Armament:
Six or eight 0.5-in. wing-mounted Browning machine-guns with 267 or 425 rounds per gun and up to 2,500 lb. of bombs or ten 5-in. HVAR missiles.
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Post by: streakeagle on May 06, 2001, 03:13:00 PM: I just wanted to mention one other tough Republic product that was huge:
the F-105D Thunderchief, possibly the sleekest and fastest production aircraft ever built by Republic, yet certainly in the same lineage as the P-47 and A-10 in terms of bomb payload and ruggedness.

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Post by: Heater on May 07, 2001, 02:15:00 AM: And you whine about the 1 ping kills from the C Hog. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)

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Post by: GRUNHERZ on May 07, 2001, 02:52:00 AM: Frenchy finally gets his perked Thunderbolt....
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Post by: Yoj on May 07, 2001, 09:58:00 AM: Quote
Originally posted by bloom25:
It's interesting that at one time the p47 was one of the largest and heaviest fighter planes in the world, and now it looks tiny compared to the a10.

Notice which one is faster. Of course, the Warthog isn't built for speed, but its ironic (to me) that the jet powered Thunderbolt II is slower than the original.

- Yoj