And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
The jet, serial number 80-0244, also retains the distinctive snakehead nose art found on all A-10Cs that belong to the 122nd Fighter Wing, which is nicknamed the Blacksnakes.
Saw these demonstrated at the Smokey Hill Gunnery and bombing range about 8 miles from where I lived in Salina. They did an open to the public show. WOW! Oh, and it took over a hour to drive that 8 miles because of traffic to the show.
BrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrRRRRRRRRRRRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrt. Music to my ears but not the enemy, that played as they were pounding the ground beyond our boys. A lovely sound.
Most days I can hear and see them overhead running training routes over the counties to the West of Fort Wayne right around lunch time. Three or four in a really wide formation.Looking rough and tough daily.God bless 'em.
My favorite modern era jet !!
ReplyDeleteYep. That's pretty awesome alright.
ReplyDeleteWOW!
Baddest air to mud war tool ever invented!
ReplyDeleteI just love that airplane. What a wondrous invention/
ReplyDeleteA 41 year old plane, still trolling along!
ReplyDeleteAnd to think the Air Force did its damndest to kill to program
ReplyDeleteThe Army Brass saw it's value and made sure that it stayed in service.
DeleteWhat the hell is that hiding in the hanger in the second picture?
DeleteYes, because the Fighter Mafia and the Bomber Mafia thought there was no glory in Air Force Pilots busting tanks.
DeleteWorked on A-10s 2 years in England, so will always have a fondness for them.
ReplyDeleteLike Fish said, they tried to kill this plane several times but it just keeps going. When you see one of these things coming at you, it's too late.
ReplyDeleteOut of Ft Wayne, Indiana. Had a pair painted with the snake nose fly over me on approach one day. Pretty cool looking planes with that paint job.
ReplyDeleteIf the Idiot-in-Chief Biden was mentally competent he would have threaten to go after us Deplorables with this bad-boy instead of F-15s.
ReplyDeleteThe turbofan engines just before the burping of the GAU-8 is one of the best sounds I have ever heard.
ReplyDeleteSaw these demonstrated at the Smokey Hill Gunnery and bombing range about 8 miles from where I lived in Salina. They did an open to the public show. WOW! Oh, and it took over a hour to drive that 8 miles because of traffic to the show.
ReplyDeleteBrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrRRRRRRRRRRRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrt. Music to my ears but not the enemy, that played as they were pounding the ground beyond our boys. A lovely sound.
ReplyDeleteMost days I can hear and see them overhead running training routes over the counties to the West of Fort Wayne right around lunch time. Three or four in a really wide formation.Looking rough and tough daily.God bless 'em.
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