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Title: World's last serving A-7 Corsair retired.
Post by: ozrocker on October 27, 2014, 02:30:22 PM: Retired by the Greek Air Force.

http://theaviationist.com/2014/10/27/haf-retirement-a-7/

:cheers: Oz
Title: Re: World's last serving A-7 Corsair retired.
Post by: mbailey on October 27, 2014, 02:57:14 PM: Man...LOVE the skin on that bird.

She deserves a long and restful retirement, awesome bird...I use to love watching them take off and land at Willow Grove NAS here in PA....use to see them flying around where i lived at the time.

Thanks for the post Oz :aok
Title: Re: World's last serving A-7 Corsair retired.
Post by: aztec on October 27, 2014, 03:00:11 PM: That's a strange flightsuit...crazy Greeks ;)
Title: Re: World's last serving A-7 Corsair retired.
Post by: Gman on October 27, 2014, 04:23:14 PM: You beat me to it. Great aircraft, so many firsts with it, one of the first truly modern HUD's. It's cousin the F8 Crusader is my favorite jet fighter, but I've always like the A7 as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7clR5f3IEk

Great video of some A7 strafing runs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xIA6A4Uef8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPfXRQw0_d4
Title: Re: World's last serving A-7 Corsair retired.
Post by: Arlo on October 27, 2014, 07:03:51 PM: (http://i1197.photobucket.com/albums/aa433/arloguh03/black_pearl_zps405cc650.png~original)
Title: Re: World's last serving A-7 Corsair retired.
Post by: Nefarious on October 27, 2014, 07:13:24 PM: SLUF!
Title: Re: World's last serving A-7 Corsair retired.
Post by: ozrocker on October 27, 2014, 07:38:23 PM: It is a nice paint scheme :aok
Badass back in the day.

:cheers: Oz
Title: Re: World's last serving A-7 Corsair retired.
Post by: Ramesis on October 29, 2014, 12:31:41 PM: The A-7's big brother (F-8) was retired several yrs ago best
I recall