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A-10 Warthog Emergency Landing
Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2017 10:44 am
by 2banaviator
In case you've missed this, here's a story of performance under pressure in Michigan last month...
A-10, canopy blown off, gear not functioning, multiple radio failures....
http://www.127wg.ang.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/1275644/no-second-guesses-selfridge-pilots-share-story-of-emergency-landing/
Re: A-10 Warthog Emergency Landing
Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2017 11:50 am
by Scott Rose
Yet another reason why I love the A-10
Re: A-10 Warthog Emergency Landing
Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2017 11:54 am
by bdk
Scott WRG Editor wrote:Yet another reason why I love the A-10
Because it is unreliable?
Re: A-10 Warthog Emergency Landing
Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2017 5:51 pm
by JohnB
bdk wrote:Scott WRG Editor wrote:Yet another reason why I love the A-10
Because it is unreliable?
Not that I noticed during my time with the 81st TFW...with six squadrons of them the largest IDAF Wing of the period).
I never heard anything bad about them. Compared to their contemporaries they were simplicity itself.
One of the jokes was they had some F-84 parts
somewhere in them.
Re: A-10 Warthog Emergency Landing
Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2017 9:29 am
by Scott Rose
bdk wrote:Scott WRG Editor wrote:Yet another reason why I love the A-10
Because it is unreliable?
No smart ass
But seriously, the fact that it can take damage and still fly long enough to get the pilot on the ground
Look up some of the damage the A-10s took in the first Iraq war.
Re: A-10 Warthog Emergency Landing
Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2018 3:17 pm
by p51
Just goes to show that the plane is only part of the equation, that the guy behind the stick is what makes it what it is.
In the hands of a lesser, poorly-trained pilot, this could have ended in tears and blood.