Tango01  | 13 Jan 2012 3:46 p.m. PST |
Beautifull job here. Great details in the cabins. philmodel.blogspot.com The A-10 is one of my favourites planes. Hope you enjoy!. Amicalement
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| Redroom | 13 Jan 2012 4:15 p.m. PST |
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| taskforce58 | 13 Jan 2012 4:36 p.m. PST |
I didn't even know a 2-seater A-10 existed until now. On the same blog, the Yak-38 is very well done too. Another uncommon subject. |
| Dynaman8789 | 13 Jan 2012 6:56 p.m. PST |
Any A-10 can be a N/AW – turn on the missile but don't fire it. Ingenuity is great stuff. |
| jpattern2 | 13 Jan 2012 8:21 p.m. PST |
Taskforce58, there was only one 2-seater A-10 built, designated YA-10B. The Air Force wasn't interested. |
| Lion in the Stars | 14 Jan 2012 5:59 a.m. PST |
What a surprise, I was expecting the 1/32 Trumpeter monster. Didn't know that Hobbyboss made a 1/48 version! |
| David Manley | 14 Jan 2012 1:59 p.m. PST |
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| Tango01 | 14 Jan 2012 11:09 p.m. PST |
Wonder to know why the Air Force dismiss the project. Amicalement
Armand |
| Tom Bryant | 14 Jan 2012 11:20 p.m. PST |
Simple: It's not "top gun" enough. In other words the fighter jocks don't like ground attack. The problem is it's essentail in the modern combat environment. |
 Legion 4 | 15 Jan 2012 10:35 a.m. PST |
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| Whitestreak | 15 Jan 2012 11:57 a.m. PST |
When I talk to visitors at the Aerospace Museum of California, where I volunteer on Sunday afternoons, I tell people that the USAF top br e the Hog. It's not sexy and fast like the F-15, F-16 and F-22. It's not scary and long-ranged, like the B-52 and B-2. It doesn't deliver nukes, like any ICBM. The top guys just hate it. However, every grunt and Jarhead I've ever spoken with, who has served in combat since Desert Storm, has absolutely LOVED the plane, and its pilots. Ground combat types want air support which can see what they need to have hit, and that can deliver that support with extreme accuracy. The A-10 does that. Not F-15s, F-16s or FA-18s, roaring by at high speed, worrying about ground fire. Then I show them the inert 30mm round I carry, and tell them that the round was designed to do one thing: destroy Soviet tanks. It does pretty fair destroying other ground targets. Which also annoys the both the Fighter and Bomber Mafias. :) |
| Whitestreak | 16 Jan 2012 5:14 p.m. PST |
Interesting. I just noticed that, in the post above, the censor filter modified the following statement (I've added dashes between the letters – maybe the letters will slip by) top br-a-s-s h-a-te |
| jpattern2 | 16 Jan 2012 9:56 p.m. PST |
Hahahaha! I was wondering what got bleeped. I tried a few dozen cuss words, and nothing made sense. Thanks for clearing up the mystery, Whitestreak. |
| Lion in the Stars | 17 Jan 2012 8:26 a.m. PST |
@Whitestreak: I bet you had a typo, no space between brass and hate. One other reason that the 2-seat A10 never got built in large quantities: It's very easy to fly, so no need for a trainer version (just the TA-10 prototype was built). They would have had to build every N/AW from scratch. |
| Whitestreak | 17 Jan 2012 11:27 a.m. PST |
Hmm. Maybe. Coulda sworn I left a space between the last "s" and the "h". Oh, well. The joys of automated filters! |
examines another pre-painted building for WWII.
