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[pinecone81]

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My favorite airplane, the A-10. Awesome workhorses and carry a crap load of death dealing ordinance. Worked with these for a little over 4 years.

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[pez1]

From Wings Over North Georgia, Oct 21

 

[Dean_Gretsch]

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My favorite airplane, the A-10. Awesome workhorses and carry a crap load of death dealing ordinance. Worked with these for a little over 4 years.

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When I was in S. Korea back in the very early 80's, they'd always use the A-10's as aggressors because they could fly so low to the ground and escape radar. Films they'd show would have mountain tops just leveled by those cannon. Still an impressive aircraft/flying tank!

 

[smoke665]

From Wings Over North Georgia, Oct 21

All good, but that last one is fanatastic!

 

[PropilotBW]

From Wings Over North Georgia, Oct 21

Looks like it was a good show. I went to the inaugural airshow at the Atlanta Motor Speedway 2 weeks ago. It was only ok.

 

[pez1]

From Wings Over North Georgia, Oct 21

All good, but that last one is fanatastic!

Thanks! I love the Merlin and Double Wasp engines together- pure music.

Looks like it was a good show. I went to the inaugural airshow at the Atlanta Motor Speedway 2 weeks ago. It was only ok.

The Rome show is awesome! Except for escaping when it's over...

 

[davidharmier60]

Same outfit different plane.

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[pez1]

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[PropilotBW]

This is about the only good one I got from the most recent airshow.

 

[SCraig]

A couple from a visit from Fifi in 2013 and again this past July:

And a few from the 2014 Great Tennessee Airshow

Scott "Scooter" Yoak and Quicksilver

Fat Albert would have been a lot better with some prop blur but I had been shooting jets and forgot

And it wouldn't be an airshow without the Blue Angels

 

[smoke665]

it wouldn't be an airshow without the Blue Angels

Was this the show in TN where one crashed?

 

[SCraig]

Was this the show in TN where one crashed?

Right airport, wrong year The photos are from the 2014 event and the crash was in 2016. The show is held every 2 years and I didn't make it in 2016 for some reason.

 

[smoke665]

Was this the show in TN where one crashed?

Right airport, wrong year The photos are from the 2014 event and the crash was in 2016. The show is held every 2 years and I didn't make it in 2016 for some reason.

That's right, I remember now. It was shocking for us because we had seen them at NAS earlier that year.

 

[davidharmier60]

The threw an Airshow in Houston and I couldn't get there. I suspect I missed F-22, F-35 and possibly B-2. Those are three planes I've never seen in person.
Super Hornets and F-15E were coming in while I was still shooting. I may come back and post up some more 90s stuff.

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[SCraig]

That's right, I remember now. It was shocking for us because we had seen them at NAS earlier that year.

Smyrna is constructing a permanent memorial to the pilot. It is supposed to be completed early in 2018 so I'll have to get by there and get some photos of it before the vandals get to it.

The Navy determined the cause to be pilot error, of course. They claimed evidence pointed to the fact that while performing a Split-S he was too low, too fast, and failed to disengage the afterburners (even though his radio traffic showed that he did) causing him to run out of altitude.