To All Our Vets...

[hogcowboy]

Can you call the A10 a true workhorse or do you have to call it a workhog?:Shrug: Workhog just doesn't sound right. :laugh::laugh::laugh: It is an amazing plane that should never have been dropped from our arsenal.

 

[consitter]

Can you call the A10 a true workhorse or do you have to call it a workhog?:Shrug: Workhog just doesn't sound right. :laugh::laugh::laugh: It is an amazing plane that should never have been dropped from our arsenal.

That plane kept a lot of downed pilots from getting captured. It's maneuverability and guns made sure of that.

 

[peteg59]

 

[peteg59]

 

[dbruce56]

Can you call the A10 a true workhorse or do you have to call it a workhog?:Shrug: Workhog just doesn't sound right. :laugh::laugh::laugh: It is an amazing plane that should never have been dropped from our arsenal.

Luckily, smarter heads prevailed. In January 2016, the USAF revealed it was "indefinitely freezing" plans to retire the A-10 for at least several years.

 

[hogcowboy]

Luckily, smarter heads prevailed. In January 2016, the USAF revealed it was "indefinitely freezing" plans to retire the A-10 for at least several years.

Smart move. I just figured it was one more Obama could chock up of ways he helped tear down our military.

 

[Catfish]

Not a lot of pictures, but some interesting aviation knowledge.

 

[Sully]

F-22 and F-15

 

[Ozarkryder]

Jimmy Doolittle, winner of the 1932 Thompson Trophy with the BeeGee R-2. The GeeBee's were made for air racing and speed record attempts - basically the largest engine they could get with the smallest airframe that would keep them in the air.

 

[peteg59]

 

[hogcowboy]

They started using converted jet aircraft in California as water tankers before 91 when I left there to finally get back to Texas. I'm not sure what they use here as I've just got too old to volunteer to fight fires.

 

[Sully]

3 CARRIER SHIPS TOGETHER

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http://jwvsw.org/carriers. pdf

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[rhino 2]

3 CARRIER SHIPS TOGETHER

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http://jwvsw.org/carriers. pdf

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Inspiring....To say the least, Thanks for the post...ThumbUp

 

[peteg59]

 

[ol' school]

Pic of a Ford GT being unloaded from back in the day!!! :good:

 

[peteg59]

 

[Zammy]

What an awesome sight, great link Sully.

 

[peteg59]

 

[peteg59]

 

[peteg59]

The B70 pictured was destroyed in a mid air crash shortly after this pic...

Lost two great pilots in that fireball, Carl Cross, the B-70 co-pilot, and Joe Walker, the pilot of the F-104. RIP.

 

[peteg59]

 

[peteg59]

 

[GrandpaDave]

Thanks Sully that was great to see something constructive come out of that tragedy.

 

[1dn5up]

For sure- I'll Never Forget

 

[consitter]

Wonderful post. Thank you.

 

[hogcowboy]

Was this a concept or the real deal? I just don't remember it.

 

[peteg59]

Was this a concept or the real deal? I just don't remember it.

It was a concept. Not sure who funded it, but it does have a US flag on the starboard tail-fin.

 

[LadyonaMission]

Howard Pardue, who owned the Corsair in the first picture also owned this Grumman F8F Bearcat which he crashed at the airport in Breckenridge, Texas. He died in the crash, but at 77 he was doing what he loved.

 

[Downtown Cowtown]

This Nazi (for real) was enroute to fight with my ole man July 5 1943 dads first but not last gunfight. 50 fighters shot down 8 possibles, and they were vets, that nose art says 100 missions each for the fighter planes.

Over Sicily before the invasion. Ben Warmer 3 planes over from my dad became a double ace that day and had a battle field promotion to LT an moved out of that unit to shoot down 3 more before wars end.

Ben was a 6ft 6in athlete, don't know how he fit, a b-17 is small, as Ive been in chuckie when it was in ft worth.

This was the hornets nest over Gerbani, his second presidential citation came on Black Thursday where they almost lost the whole friggn American air force, ole man crew came home with 4 bullets or was it two ??? from Hornets nest, he took about 2k in extra ammo for the Black Thursday mission.

The Cotton Eyed Joe took them 50 missions from North Africa to the belly of the beast (Germany). Then after the surrender, the crew was enroute to Japan, to finish them off.

I talked to the Navigator on the Hornets nest mission, the internet can be a wonderful thang.

The reason the CEJ is down the pilot forgot to put the flaps ??? down or the wheels and crash bang boom, ole man never bragged on the pilot, he wore yellow cowboy boots and was from Texas. One of two pilots.

Hes gone now, they all be gone, but not forgotten.

 

[Downtown Cowtown]

My dad on the back row 4th from the left i think, cant see pic clearly

Tank first into Bastonge to relive the airborne, my kinfolk. Cobra King

wiki it, reads like a wild west shoot out, tanks behind getting killed (4) arriving in time to blow up a Nazi pill box, for the airborne, airborne didn't turn down any help, even tho they said they didn't need it.:cxtv: