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unusual facts about Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II


U.N. Squadron

Greg Gates: Greg flies an A-10 Thunderbolt; this plane has smaller forward fire than either Shin or Mickeys planes, but it also fires a second stream downward at a 45° angle from the forward firing stream.


A-10 Tank Killer

The gameplay consists of the player piloting an A-10 Thunderbolt II "tank killer" through various combat missions set in the Gulf War air campaign as well as a fictional European scenario.

Corrie Erickson

The United States Air Force 104th fighter squadron has used Erickson's Pin-up art for its Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II Fighter Jets, stationed in Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan.

Eagle Dynamics

The company has developed Su-27 Flanker (1995), Lock On: Modern Air Combat (2003), the Lock On add-on Flaming Cliffs 3.0 (2013, featuring the Su-25T) and the Digital Combat Simulator, with the Kamov Ka-50 "Black Shark" as the first release (2008), and Fairchild A-10C "Warthog" as the second release (2011) - all of them being combat flight simulators.

Fred R. Sloan

He would acquire more than 6,000 hours flying in a Convair C-131 Samaritan, Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star, Cessna T-37 Tweet, Northrop T-38 Talon, Convair F-102 Delta Dagger, Cessna O-2 Skymaster, Cessna A-37 Dragonfly, Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II, and General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon.

John W. Rosa

Rosa is a pilot with more than 3,600 flying hours in the A-7, A-10, the Hunter and Jaguar aircraft, F-16, F-117A, HH-60G and HC-130.

Joseph J. Brandemuehl

He has accumulated more than 3,000 flying hours in a Cessna T-41 Mescalero, Cessna T-37 Tweet, Northrop T-38 Talon, the Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II, Fairchild C-26 Metroliner, and the General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon.

Remscheid

An A-10 Thunderbolt II crashed in the city on 8 December 1988.


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