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Miss seeing them fly over the farm north of Ft Wayne.....
Quote from: stlaser on November 28, 2019, 01:27:08 PMMiss seeing them fly over the farm north of Ft Wayne.....You'll never see them in Colorado...Scares the locals, not enough safe places...
Are they still in Tuscon, anybody know?Built in Hagerstown MD way back when, what a wonderful killer of an aircraft
Quote from: Flyin6 on November 28, 2019, 09:24:09 PMAre they still in Tuscon, anybody know?Built in Hagerstown MD way back when, what a wonderful killer of an aircraftI see them every time I go hunting south east of Tucson, dogfighting by the border... presumably from the Goldwater range. They seem to loop around through the silverbell area also, flying through the mountains by Marana, scaring the crap out of unaware hunters like myself.
Wonderful aircraft. Before Desert Storm, it was in the process of being turned over to the Army. The AF cancelled that after it performed so well. I remember having a set of Military Aircraft flash cards as a teen, and on the card for the A-10, it stated survival in actual combat is unlikely. Man, how wrong they were! The only bird I've ever seen through history that could sustain as much damage and keep flying is the B-17. And nothing beats the sound of BRRRRrrrrrrtttt to get the heart pumping!
Yeah, I had a buddy who transitioned from OH-58s to fixed wing as part of the expected transition. He was hard slotted for an A-10 slot. When that fell through, he ended up as a Sherpa driver. He was a National Guardsman, who continued to fly on the civilian side...from helicopter tours, to pipeline flying in Alaska, to oil rig ferrying in the gulf until he took an AGR job as an IP for the Sherpa until the airframe was retired from the Army. Dude had a huge amount of hours in his flight log on a crap ton of different airframes.
Yeah he had a lot of civilian hours in Jetrangers and Bell 214s. I want to say he had mid six figures across rotor and fixed wing hours.
Quote from: cj7ox on December 11, 2019, 07:17:55 PMYeah he had a lot of civilian hours in Jetrangers and Bell 214s. I want to say he had mid six figures across rotor and fixed wing hours.214's?There is such a thing, but rare. My guys actually operated them. Only 60 ever built by Bell for the shaw of Iran when there was such a thing. I'd wager maybe a third of them are still flyable worldwide.Maybe he was flying 412's??Twin engine four bladed Huey, more common as an air ambulance, IFR off shore transport, and fire fighting.