in my book all pilots that fight air to air and survive…hard core men…well done to all fly boys…jazz
Yeah your dead right Dragonfire Rudels experience was used to aid in the development of the A-10…
As for Aussie aces no Australian fighter pilot has claimed a kill since Korea but the highest amount of kills by an Australian in WW1 was 47 by Robert A Little and in WWII Clive Caldwell claimed 28 and a half…
My brother was a crew chief on an A-10, I made a model, my nephew(his son) thought it looked cool and took it for a flight off my deck. He’s a curious little kid.[V]
Mike,
I’m afraid to ask…how much overhaul/repairs had to be made after its “maiden flight”?
[BH]lets just say I’m still missing pieces. They say the A-10 is a very rugged plane, able to fly with chunks of wing missing. I guess it’s durability doesnt apply for the scale plastic version. The plane was a total loss. [BH] It landed on my gravel driveway. and pieces scattered into a small wooded area. ( I lived in the country at the time) And it was painted green. My nephew is well on his way to being an ace, one confirmed air to air, a civilian vehicle, and an enemy submarine.
I hate it when an aircraft has to be stricken from the records early. [:(] My brother did that once when I had just finished HIS, 1/48 F-4J. He decided to launch a football from his room into mine, and WHAMO!..the just finished Phantom became Phantom bits. It took a while to get her back together; even had to remake a rear canopy out of scrap clear styrene.
My sympathies…[|)]
Yeah fellas when stars wars episode one came out i lost a BF 109E in one of my kids lightsaber battles…
OUCH![xx(]
funny enough thats what the kids said when i noticed it broken[tup]
It seems that any finished model has a target on it. It’s murphy’s law, any projectile remotely close to your prize winning model will land right on it. Any other day of the week I’m sure your brother couldn’t hit it with a football if he was trying. Another law is any breakable in the hands of a toddler will immediatly be thrown with tremendous force at the nearest hard surface. When my nephew threw my A-10 I got real close to dropping some F-bombs on him, but I bit my tongue. I’ll wait until he’s older to explain to him what kind of little terror he was.
I forgot who it was, but on another threat, a modeler’s friend smashed his completed tank against a wall in order to get him to “unwind”[?] I’d of end up “unwinding” with his head through the sheet rock.
in the same vein, excerpted from “The Mission”, posted prominently near the Admiral’s office at NSAWC-
- Concerning the tally of Medal of Honor winners in Southeast Asia: Attack - 5. Fighter - 0
and
- You can shoot down all the MiGs you want, but when you get hosed in Marshall by an SA-5, you’ve lost the war.
[;)]
does any one know when the germans called a pilot an “expert”. 100 kills or special abilities?
Mate off the top of my head i think the Germans considered their fighter pilots "experten’’ when they reached 10 kills…