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"Great planes" marathon....
Great planes marathon on military channel...monday .6am-5pm est......
Episodes.... F15 F16 A1 F84 F/a18 P51 P40 B25 F100 F4 Sr71
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Sounds like a channel I REALLY need.
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09-07-2009, 04:29 AM
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One of my favorite shows - I have a season pass. They really do a great job with a lot of good commentary and some very unusual footage. The episode on the SR-71 was one of my favorites.
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I was stationed in Thailand, near Utapao AFB, back in the later days of Nam. The SR-71 and the U-2 were active then. Watching them take off and land was a real treat...nothing like at the air shows where they tame it down a lot.
Here's a neat YouTube vid of a guy getting a ride in a U-2 trainer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJoMDq4AyLc (tried to embed but seems not to work on my Mac)
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Good find! Excellent shows and watching the one about the SR right now.
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Joe,
I live near Beale AFB in Calif. One of my shooting pards has been involved for decades on the U-2, not as a pilot, but nav equip. U-2's fly out of Beale all the time, and that's where the pilot training is done. I'm gonna try to hit him up or a ride in the trainer but doubtful I'll be successful.
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I've seen the A10 on "deadliest aircraft", it is an amazing episode, same channel
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Hell yeah. I am really tight with a lot of the guys in the A-10 community and could easily get a backseat ride, if there was any such thing as an A-10 backseat. They don't even have a simulator. They just toss a pilot in a dumpster while a bunch of airmen throw rocks at it.
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Gee, really?
It has no engines, there are no flying examples of the proposed A-10 Night-All Weather 2 seat attack version. Only a small handful were ever made- 3 or 7 depending on source IIRC, none have flown in decades.
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They only made one, it flew. It still has two seats, so there is such a thing as back seat in an A-10.
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The made at least 3 IIRC.
You can verify that here: http://www.a-10.org/phpbb2/index.php(edit: went back and did a forum search at "warthog territory", it was one afterall, my bad.) There are no flying NAW's, so one cannot get a back seat ride in one, can they? I think i was a teenager when the last NAW flew. 
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couple of my college buddies are now A-10 pilots...here's one in front of his steed...
  
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09-07-2009, 04:34 PM
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That pic with the trees is cool on so many levels
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These 2 are from the same photo shoot as the low level tree shot above. They're from a live fire exercise.
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Why no F86's? A Mig 15 in there would be good too.
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Me. Walking down a ridge about 10 years ago near Crested Butte, Colorado, going to a fishing hole on the creek. A10 came up over the ridge right next to me. Loud. Fast. Close. Felt like he was 50 feet away. Jetwash. He climbed over the ridge in front of me and down the other side, down the creek. Pilot waved. I about lost it. Last edited by tcar; 09-08-2009 at 04:16 PM.. |
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