Cool Air Force Pics - "Elephant Walk" Osan Base South Korea

[City]

Panorama

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[Fatboy 18]

Awesome thanks for posting

[BlknBlu]

gotta love those a-10's

Bruce

[Steve M]

A-10:

Engineers: "Where do we put the nose gear? There's no room with the gun sticking out the front."
Generals: "Sorry fellas, the gun stays right where it is...figure out a way to make it work."

[Vprbite]

A-10:

Engineers: "Where do we put the nose gear? There's no room with the gun sticking out the front."
Generals: "Sorry fellas, the gun stays right where it is...figure out a way to make it work."

It definitely seems the A-10 was a project where someone said "build me a plane to fit this gun!"

[J TNT]

I'm glad your on our side......lol !

[steve911]

I spent 12 years maintaining hogs. The redundnacies they put into that plane to make sure it would still fly after being damaged was a masterful piece of work.

I wish I could have shared some of birdstrike (vultures & geese) pics that I had to repair. Massive wing, engine and tail damage but like a TIMEX WATCH, it took a lickin and kept on tickin.

[City]

I spent 12 years maintaining hogs. The redundnacies they put into that plane to make sure it would still fly after being damaged was a masterful piece of work.

I wish I could have shared some of birdstrike (vultures & geese) pics that I had to repair. Massive wing, engine and tail damage but like a TIMEX WATCH, it took a lickin and kept on tickin.

That's so great that you were so intimate with these aircraft! Don't know exactly why, but I find them totally fascinating and brilliant to view. Someday I hope to personally see one in flight.

[City]

Relative size of projectile.

[steve911]

Relative size of projectile.

You have an inert round also. an A/P (armor piercing) round (Weighing over 1/4lb) is coming out of the muzzle at over 3300 feet per second!

[Vprbite]

Relative size of projectile.

I made one of those into a tap handle for my kegerator. What a scary ass bullet!

[Steve M]

I made one of those into a tap handle for my kegerator. What a scary ass bullet!

You should hear it go off in person...my first assignment as a young 2LT in the Air Force put me in an office directly across the street from the firing range at Eglin where they tested that gun (usually dismounted from the aircraft). Every once in a while, you'd hear a massive "BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRT" that would shake the building...there's nothing else that sounds quite like it. I managed to snag two of those dummy rounds and gave them to my dad and brother as Christmas presents...oddly enough, they won't give you the depleted uranium rounds that are actually used.

[RCVIPER]

I'm currently doing a job not far from there. It's awesome seeing them fly over our work site.. and very welcome. I get a since of pride every time they fly by!!

[ViperPete]

poster worthy pics!

Thanks for posting.

[Vprbite]

I would imagine you would feel the concussion wave in your chest if that thing was going off within miles of you. What does it sound/feel like to the pilots I wonder?

Thanks for the insight, Steve M.