Pretty clever.
False cockpit aside, the A-10 is my favorite plane of all time. It has a sound that's really unmistakable.
(well, technically I guess it's the GAU-8 making the sound...)
False cockpit aside, the A-10 is my favorite plane of all time. It has a sound that's really unmistakable.
(well, technically I guess it's the GAU-8 making the sound...)
The village where I grew up in Scotland is on a headland on the coast and was near a couple of RAF bases - it seemed a popular route point so my childhood had a lot of very low flying military aircraft about so I guess we were all used to the noise.
Then came the day when there was a Vulcan bomber doing apparently doing aerobatics at a fairly low level over the village - it's probably close to 40 years but I don't think I will ever forget that utterly glorious sound....
[Edit: the sight of a Vulcan being thrown around the sky isn't something I'll forget either!]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzdtYU7i_jY
I have to assume that the secret UK war plan wasn't to drop H-bombs on the Soviets but to deafen them into submission.
So the A-10 community adopted it second-hand.