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JP, I think the story you heard was probably accurate: a common checklist item for penetrating icing conditions is to turn the ignition on continuous- helps prevent a flameout if you ingest a big slug of water/ice/hail. I bet all kinds of nasty stuff spew out of the gun.

On the recoil, an A-7 driver I know told me that when they would fire the gun they had to use a little yaw to counteract the recoil, otherwise you would "John Wayne" the bullets into the target. I bet the same thing happens with the A-10 even though the gun is on-axis.

Yeah, "totally awesome." A living tribute to Jeff Spicoli. Some shnook busted the board's quota for the use of the word "makeweight" so Wayne's software blocked it.

Speaking of our Alma Mater, there are a good half-dozen pages in "Law Quadrangle Notes" describing Jeffrey Fisher, '97 and what a stud he is, arguing a case in front of the Supremes. Also an article from Rich "Whammo" Friedman basically fawning all over the guy and what a super-terrific brief he wrote about the right of confrontation, Fisher saying how smart he was, etc. Do you remember this dude, used to live across the hall from me, next to the dude from Ghana that took, like 5 cold showers a day? Sometimes I miss the law but when I read "Law Quadrangle Notes" I cringe at the extent to which their self-masturbatory hubris exceeds even my own.