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"The power to Destroy the planet, is insignifigant to the power of the Air Force----Mudd Vader

This the right one?
http://www.a-10.org/photos/p.asp?FileName=sam1%2Ejpg
http://www.a-10.org/photos/p.asp?FileName=sam2%2Ejpg


Then there's this Hog...
http://www.a-10.org/photos/p.asp?FileName=IMG%5F0527%2EJPG




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Last pic is of battle damage during the current Gulf war.

get muddy

And they think a single engine f-35 can take its place.

hey guys if the damage is only to the engine pod how long does it take to get hog ready to fly again. Is it a simple in the field swap out.

To change a nacelle isn't too difficult. Basically just drop the motor, then the nacelle, then the opposite to install. The thing that would take the longest is waiting for a nacelle to issue. It could be done in a day or two depending on the priority given to fixing it.

There are 10 kinds of people in the world: Those who understand Binary, and those who don't.

for 258 we yanked the off the doors and aft cowl off 987, had to do some abdr on them and sent them up range. the acft flew into to Kuwait 3 days later.

get muddy

Dice I watched the mid-air at pope while there.......well not actualy the collision itself, but the parachuting pilots, seats falling to the ground, and the impact and sliding of the lawn dart into the 141 on green ramp

jb

Utinam logica falsa tuam philosophiam totam suffodiant!

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for 258 we yanked the doors and aft cowl off <b>987</b>, had to do some abdr on them and sent them up range. the acft flew into to Kuwait 3 days later.

get muddy
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Hehe, I sill need to tell "the rest of the story" on 987....<img src=icon_smile_cool.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_cool.gif border=0 align=middle>

Ugly But Well Hung

correction, that was for type 7



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Dice I watched the mid-air at pope while there.......well not actualy the collision itself, but the parachuting pilots, seats falling to the ground, and the impact and sliding of the lawn dart into the 141 on green ramp

jb

Utinam logica falsa tuam philosophiam totam suffodiant!
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Utinam logica falsa tuam philosophiam totam suffodiant!