Sunday, April 27, 2008
Cool A-10 Thunderbolt II photo
Look many of the cool pictures I find online, I was looking for something else when I stumbled upon this photo of an A-10 Thunderbolt II. I like this pic for two reasons - it shows the aircraft dropping a anti-heat seeking missile flare from an ALE-40 chaff and flare system, and the Westinghouse ALQ-119 ECM pod hanging on the port wing. Though I never got to work on the A-10, I worked with the ALE-40 and the ALQ-119.
The A-10 is a remarkable aircraft. It was one of the few combat planes ever designed with ease of maintenance incorporated right in the design. Everything is easy to get to and easy to remove and replace.
I took the original large image and cropped it down to 1680 x 1050 so I could use it as a desktop background. Though I’m a tree hugging liberal, I love combat aircraft.
