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Old 05-09-2007, 07:58 PM
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Cool opportunity!!

As the title says, I get to go on a pretty cool opportunity next week. On Friday May 18th, I get to travel down to Willow Grove, PA with some other A-10 engineers and watch the A-10 do some bombing and gun runs!!

Not only that, but they are actually letting us bring cameras!

I think they will mainly be dropping some GBU-12's and then firing a bunch of GAU-8 rounds. I am pretty psyched. Plus, in June/July I then get to go out and watch the A-10 fire off the missiles that I have worked on integrating.
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Old 05-09-2007, 08:00 PM
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Thats pretty cool dude
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Thats sweet man! Thats something that many don't see in a lifetime
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that is without a doubt an amazing opportunity. great to see when hard work pays off to treat you to such an event!
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thats hot. i was supposed to fly on an A10 a few years ago but i got hosed
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thats hot. i was supposed to fly on an A10 a few years ago but i got hosed
No offense, but I am gonna call BS on that one. I believe there is only one 2 seat A-10 left in existance and I don't think it flies anymore. (It was called the A-10B)

Anyway, I will be bringing both my camcorder and digital camera so I will do my best to get some decent shots and I will post them up as soon as I can!

EDIT: You can find info here on the two seater A-10's. They built 1.5 basically. A-10 Thunderbolt II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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