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Well I am a long time visitor to this site but just recently registered to post. So heres a few pictures for yall that you might not have seen.

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Leaving GDC after Kosovo.

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Whoops<img src=icon_smile_shock.gif border=0 align=middle>

<img src="http://daves.homelinux.net/albums/album01/hogwalk.sized.jpg" border=0>

<img src="http://daves.homelinux.net/albums/album01/liltail.sized.jpg" border=0>

<img src="http://daves.homelinux.net/albums/album01/oops.jpg" border=0>

Thats a few you might not have seen.

Get a room. To think the hog has been reduced to playing the role of a fertility clinic. lol

Great pictures. That would make one hell of a psychological warfare flyer to drop on Bagdad. Caption reading "my birds do it better then your birds" or "hey saddam look no viagra".

The only question I have is did those rocking robbins take out the nose gear. <img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_cool.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile.gif border=0 align=middle>

If so that darn bird knows how to cause inferiority complexes. Lol

Thanks again for the humor.

Someone had to ask:

Does it look like those hogs have one engine shut down? Is it a shutter speed thing or a trick of the light or some strange cosmic alignment or what?

Hey, I'm always one for the cheap seats.

ROTFLOL...gotta love comments from the peanut gallery. Ghorsepower and Anons, I think we've all forgotten our manners. Welcome to the forum! Pull up a seat, and grab a drink from the cooler. Man, it's getting CROWDED here on the porch!

Ted

Politicians and diapers have one thing in common. They should both be changed regularly and for the same reason.
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Ahhhh! Now the stories make sense.... anyone notice what's wrong with that last pic????

Not like we would do that to a Pope jet...ever...nor would we zap a giant panther head INSIDE a nacelle either...

--Raven

"Work Hard, Party Hard, Hardly Sleep"

WHAT WAS THE DEAL WITH THE NOSE GEAR?
RAVEN,THOSE SP'S ARE A SNEAKY BUNCH,BUT YOU COULDNT OF DONE THAT TO A 23TFW/76TH HOG.
IT WOULD OF BEEN FUN TO SEE WHAT WOULD OF SHOWED UP ON YOUR WING KINGS JET.HUMMMMMMMMM?


PRESS TO TEST

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Ok the Panther head story is pretty funny. I was in the 81st at the time and we were hurting for jets. There was a pope jet in Jaber that was broke/canned to death it got left behind. It took the guys at jaber 2 weeks to get it to Spang where it broke hard again. So we decided to do the right thing and fix it up a little. It just took us a couple of months to get the bugs out <img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle> Well just about the time the 74th was about to declare war on us for stealing their jet, Kosovo was kicking up and they sent 3 74th jets to Gioia Del Colle to supplement our full squadron of 81st jets. I was already in Italy when 194 arrived so I knew nothing about the head until i saw it at GDC! Well the crew chief of 194, some of you F-111 guys might know him Mike Holley, had to be restrained because he hadn't seen his jet in over a year and spangs pro supers had decided to give pope a present for letting them borrow their jet for 4 months! He was Pissed! Here was his revenge


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He sanded off the jaw and flew it for a few days!

The nose strut was 81-1953 during Kosovo too. One day it came back from flight and taxied in to the hardstand and stopped uneventaly. The C/C looked around the expiditer for some reason i can't remember and when he looked back at the pilot he and the pilot were eye to eye!<img src=icon_smile_shock.gif border=0 align=middle> Both of had a puzzled look on their faces then proceded to crap their pants! One of the other Crew Chiefs took off running into the field it was pretty comical accually. I dont think they ever figured out why it broke it just snapped at the base after he stopped? Heres a close up pic.


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Excellent pics Ghorsepower....welcome aboard!!

You burn 'em, we'll turn 'em

Now that I think about it, what's the deal with the lead plane not having the teeth?

Ted

Politicians and diapers have one thing in common. They should both be changed regularly and for the same reason.
<img src="http://www.stopstart.fsnet.co.uk/smilie/dark2.gif" border=0>

The reason the lead plane dosent have teeth is because the 81st from spang was the main squadron there during the war we had 20+ jets there while pope only had 4 to supplement us. It was A1952 the 52FW wing jet.

YOU GOT TO LOVE THE C/C FOR WIPING THAT GRIN OFF THAT CATS FACE!
MAN.I WOULD OF CRAPPED TOO IF THE HOG DROPPED LIKE THAT. THE SOUND THAT STRUT SNAPPING WOULD OF BEEN ENOUGH

PRESS TO TEST

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Gee, I guess the gun is kinda heavy, isn't it! <img src=icon_smile_clown.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_evil.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle>

King George II on Gen. James Wolfe: "Mad, is he? Then I wish he'd bite more of my other generals!"

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\"Those who hammer their guns into plows
will plow for those who do not.\"
- Thomas Jefferson

That was a cheap shot anommity. But I guess it could have been super imposed...kidding...

SSgt Acree
PILSUNG!!!

Outstanding Pics! I wish I could have seen that HOG WALK! Now about the nose strut. I think I remember a TCTO about the inspection on the strut and having then inspected by NDI. Again its been a long time since I touched a A10 but I thought on a Pre flight & Post flight, the NS had to be checked for proper extention, cracks, or damage. In the end, at least no one got hurt.

Glad to see the 75th in the pics. What Tails went to Kosovo from the 75th?

pctech/xA10A crew Chief 9204

Those jets were from the 74th FS.

The reason the nose gear strut broke was due to corrosion inside the inner strut where the fork mated to the inner cylinder. Pre/Bo, PREFLT, BPO inspections would have never caught it.
Cheers
db

Being responsible means sometimes pissing people off.
Gen Colin Powell ret

I was the Crew Chief who marshalled the aircraft in the day the strut snapped. These are the facts as I know them...
First of all, no one crapped their pants. Second, no one ran away when it happened. This aircraft was fully loaded for action in Kosovo and due to not having much room to move the aircraft, we had to marshall it straight in and turn it around 180 degrees. Anyone who has ever done this has seen how much the strut flex's, especially with 1150 rounds in the gun. When the Pilot applied the brakes to stop, the aircraft swayed forward and when it went back, the strut snapped. (it was unbelievably loud and scary to say the least, but still, no one crapped their pants) The results from the PQDR showed the strut was tempered too long during manufacture, causing it to be weaker than normal. Brittle would be a good way to describe it.

Wolfy