This one is for Keefe!

[WellsstreetWanderer]

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/02/22/legendary-10-warthog-wins-another-fight-vs-budget-ax.html?intcmp=hpbt3

[ZiggysFryBoy]

Was down in Tucson last week...Took the boy (age 7) to the Air Museum down there, right near the airport/Davis-Monthan AFB.  While we were there, the mighty 'Hogs were flying. 

He told me that he liked the A-10 better than the F-16, even though his great-grandpa was a mechanic on the F-16s in the SD-ANG. 

[keefe]

Was down in Tucson last week...Took the boy (age 7) to the Air Museum down there, right near the airport/Davis-Monthan AFB.  While we were there, the mighty 'Hogs were flying. 

He told me that he liked the A-10 better than the F-16, even though his great-grandpa was a mechanic on the F-16s in the SD-ANG.

Pima Air Museum is very cool.

I went through the Warthog RTU at D-M. Learned that carne seca is best eaten on Congress Street...

[keefe]

I took almost a year out a few years ago to work with an NGO relief agency. One of my primary duties was to fly supplies around in these high-winged Otters that are ubiquitous in that part of the world because of their STOL capabilities.

One of them went down on a route I flew numerous times. Flying in and out of Jomsom is some of the most rugged terrain anywhere.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/25/asia/nepal-plane-crash/index.html

[keefe]

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/02/22/legendary-10-warthog-wins-another-fight-vs-budget-ax.html?intcmp=hpbt3

As well they should. More Hajis introduced to virgins than any other weapon system since the word "infidel" was invented.

F#ck those guys. Really.

https://www.youtube.com/v/pp_KUc3suWE 

[Benny B]

As well they should. More Hajis introduced to virgins than any other weapon system since the word "infidel" was invented.

F#ck those guys. Really.

https://www.youtube.com/v/pp_KUc3suWE

Looks like Ahkmed is crawling away on all fours twos there at 1:28

[keefe]

Looks like Ahkmed is crawling away on all fours twos there at 1:28

He wasn't half the man he was before he met Mr Warthog!

[Benny B]

Uh oh.... A-10's pappy is coming out to play.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/03/09/why-is-america-using-these-antique-planes-to-fight-isis.html

[muwarrior69]

Father of A10 Warthog honored at Arlington.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/22/politics/a-10-avery-kay-funeral-flyby/index.html

[rocket surgeon]

Down in lake havasu city, golfing on a course just up the lake on the Colorado river, twice, there was a big jet(i.e. Air Force one big) flanked by 3 let's say f-16's.  One off each wing, then the third was off the left wing a little further removed.  The first time I saw it, I thought, oh-oh, looks like an escort for whatever reason.  Then I saw it a 2nd time and I'm thinking this was an exercise. 

Keefe, if you're out there, do they run these exercises out here?  Couldn't imagine if I were a passenger looking out my window at the pretty views seeing an f-16 pilot giving me the high sign

[ZiggysFryBoy]

Down in lake havasu city, golfing on a course just up the lake on the Colorado river, twice, there was a big jet(i.e. Air Force one big) flanked by 3 let's say f-16's.  One off each wing, then the third was off the left wing a little further removed.  The first time I saw it, I thought, oh-oh, looks like an escort for whatever reason.  Then I saw it a 2nd time and I'm thinking this was an exercise. 

Keefe, if you're out there, do they run these exercises out here?  Couldn't imagine if I were a passenger looking out my window at the pretty views seeing an f-16 pilot giving me the high sign

Charlie: So, lieutenant, where exactly were you?
Keefe: Well, we...
Goose: Thank you.
Keefe: Started up on a 6, when he pulled from the clouds, and then I moved in above him.
Charlie: Well, if you were directly above him, how could you see him?
Keefe: Because I was inverted.
Iceman: [coughs whilst saying] Bullshit.
Goose: No, he was man. It was a really great move. He was inverted.
Charlie: You were in a 4g inverted dive with a MiG28?
Keefe: Yes, ma'am.
Charlie: At what range?
Keefe: Um, about two meters.
Goose: It was actually about one and a half I think. It was one and a half. I've got a great Polaroid of it, and he's right there, must be one and a half.
Keefe: Was a nice picture.
Goose: Thanks.
Charlie: Eh, lieutenant, what were you doing there?
Goose: Communicating.
Keefe: Communicating. Keeping up foreign relations. You know, giving him the bird!
Goose: [Charlie looks puzzled, so Goose clarifies] You know, the finger
Charlie: Yes, I know the finger, Goose.
Goose: I-I'm sorry, I hate it when it does that, I'm sorry. Excuse me.

[keefe]

Charlie: So, lieutenant, where exactly were you?
Keefe: Well, we...
Goose: Thank you.
Keefe: Started up on a 6, when he pulled from the clouds, and then I moved in above him.
Charlie: Well, if you were directly above him, how could you see him?
Keefe: Because I was inverted.
Iceman: [coughs whilst saying] Bullcrap.
Goose: No, he was man. It was a really great move. He was inverted.
Charlie: You were in a 4g inverted dive with a MiG28?
Keefe: Yes, ma'am.
Charlie: At what range?
Keefe: Um, about two meters.
Goose: It was actually about one and a half I think. It was one and a half. I've got a great Polaroid of it, and he's right there, must be one and a half.
Keefe: Was a nice picture.
Goose: Thanks.
Charlie: Eh, lieutenant, what were you doing there?
Goose: Communicating.
Keefe: Communicating. Keeping up foreign relations. You know, giving him the bird!
Goose: [Charlie looks puzzled, so Goose clarifies] You know, the finger
Charlie: Yes, I know the finger, Goose.
Goose: I-I'm sorry, I hate it when it does that, I'm sorry. Excuse me.

[keefe]

Down in lake havasu city, golfing on a course just up the lake on the Colorado river, twice, there was a big jet(i.e. Air Force one big) flanked by 3 let's say f-16's.  One off each wing, then the third was off the left wing a little further removed.  The first time I saw it, I thought, oh-oh, looks like an escort for whatever reason.  Then I saw it a 2nd time and I'm thinking this was an exercise. 

Keefe, if you're out there, do they run these exercises out here?  Couldn't imagine if I were a passenger looking out my window at the pretty views seeing an f-16 pilot giving me the high sign

It could have been any of a number of things. It was likely related to a Red Flag out of Nellis but it could have been some sort of goodwill gig like the fly-bys we do at big public events or ceremonies. 

Fact is, we no longer fly bomber escort as we did in WWII as there is not a terminal air threat against our strike packages.

[keefe]

This story popped up today. I know PJ - helluva fighter pilot.

How he got this bird back is a miracle.

http://www.businessinsider.com/watch-one-of-the-baddest-a-10-pilots-ever-land-after-being-hit-by-a-missile-2016-4

https://www.youtube.com/v/o7JM82fa5ZY

[rocket surgeon]

what a beast!!  and they(the nonmilitary) wanted to scrap this plane?? 

[keefe]

what a beast!!  and they(the nonmilitary) wanted to scrap this plane?? 

Yea. Ask vogue why. He knows everything about the military.

[keefe]

http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/28/politics/air-force-f-35-vs-a-10-showdown/index.html

[ChicosBailBonds]

You might like this Keefe

http://www.c-span.org/video/?16771-1/a10-fighter-pilots-persian-gulf-war

[ChicosBailBonds]

Also this....you might recognize the first man in video #1.

https://www.youtube.com/v/UQB4W8C0rZI

https://www.youtube.com/v/8kssZua8MVc

https://www.youtube.com/v/nh2Gnxa_fTw

https://www.youtube.com/v/ojPnp2hwqaE

https://www.youtube.com/v/BhGIglwmFB8

https://www.youtube.com/v/TS7O14nzrzE

[keefe]

Also this....you might recognize the first man in video #1.

That's Col Avery Kay

[ChicosBailBonds]

That's Col Avery Kay

Recently passed away

http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2016/03/21/a10-warthog-thunderbold-father-us-air-force-colonel-col-avery-kay-arlington-cemetery-ar-origwx.cnn/video/playlists/military-technology/

[ChicosBailBonds]

http://www.tactical-life.com/news/avery-kay-a-10-warthog/

[ChicosBailBonds]

https://arizonadailyindependent.com/2015/08/19/the-a-10-had-a-very-peculiar-birth/

[rocket surgeon]

had to dig deep to revitalize the "this one is for keefe" topic bringing some credibility back to scoop-

  yo keefe-what's the word on the "machete"?  they're saying it could replace the iconic warthog-just askin the man...what up?

http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/the-machete-the-super-plane-could-replace-the-10-warthog-or-19431

[ZiggysFryBoy]

had to dig deep to revitalize the "this one is for keefe" topic bringing some credibility back to scoop-

  yo keefe-what's the word on the "machete"?  they're saying it could replace the iconic warthog-just askin the man...what up?

http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/the-machete-the-super-plane-could-replace-the-10-warthog-or-19431

This article lost me at the sentence that had "Warthog" and "overkill" in it.