Fairchild-Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II / "Warthog"

[Ned Harris]

West coast A-10 demo during the Heritage Flight Conference. Davis-Monthan. 3/5/11.


_MG_0176 A-10 (s/n 80-0278) by Ned Harris, on Flickr

[Jeff D. Welker]

Ned - I really like your composition on this Hawg. Nice capture.

[MuseumAndy]

East Coast A-10 Demo at Heritage Flight Conference, DMAFB 3/5/11.


IMG_4546_hf_hf by Andrew "MuseumAndy" Boehly, on Flickr

[Ned Harris]

West coast demo team A-10 (s/n 80-0238), Davis-Monthan, 3-6-11.


_MG_0661 A-10 (s/n 80-0238) by Ned Harris, on Flickr

[Joe Copalman]

Osan-based Hawg on final at D-M.

[jslugman]

Very nice Andy, looks like you guys had a great time.

[MuseumAndy]

Thanks James.  The light definitely gets more challenging as the day goes on but light and access in the morning definitely makes up for it.

[Jeff D. Welker]

WOW - A Hot Rod Hawg. Nice group Vance!

[wingsnstuff]

Thanks Jeff.  I spoke to the Chief Master Sargeant who was there during the time of the shoot down.  I guess the MI-8 was going into a hover just as this A-10 was rolling in on another target.  Extremely bad timing for the Mi-8.  One short burst from the GAU and the MI-8 was history.

[Lynn Evans]

Really nice set Vance. I remember a news story of an A-10 shooting down a chopper. Don't know if it is the same one, but that is really cool to see.

[Chris V]

[Chris V]

[bilwor]

[jslugman]

Really nice set Vance. I remember a news story of an A-10 shooting down a chopper. Don't know if it is the same one, but that is really cool to see.

I believe the nickname is "Chopper Popper". 

[Paul Dumm]

Did some checking on the A-10 shooting down the MI-8 it was No.81-0964 was flown by Captain Todd 'Shanghai' Sheehy of the 511th TFS On Feb.15, 1991