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December 7th, 2007, 05:59 PM
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Favorite (Post-WW2) Aircraft?
Well? Lets hear them!
Mine is the Harrier. I think it is a beautiful aircraft, and the fact it is V/STOL makes it all the more, err, cool.
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December 7th, 2007, 07:20 PM
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The A-10 (Stuka wannabe) thunderbolt. The pzjgr of the sky
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December 7th, 2007, 07:55 PM
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re: Favorite (Post-WW2) Aircraft?
The F22 is pretty foxy!
Joe, I was sitting in a cafe the other day and heard an aircraft go over and was surprised that my educated guess that it was a Harrier turned out to be right, he was flying low and slow, beautiful.
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December 7th, 2007, 08:04 PM
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re: Favorite (Post-WW2) Aircraft?
This is a tough one...
The Mig-17
The F-15
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December 7th, 2007, 08:24 PM
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I saw the F-22 at the air show and it was awesome. That pilot had the plane at a standstill just like a harrier and then poof, he was gone. Another impressve plane was the C-17. It actually landed, stopped short, backed up and then took off.
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December 7th, 2007, 08:58 PM
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BTW, You guys can have 3 guesses at what the bird in my avatar is! 
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December 7th, 2007, 09:02 PM
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Is it a pigeon?
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December 7th, 2007, 09:06 PM
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OT, but your answer reminded me of a time I was at Preston train station, and there was this one-legged pigeon plodding along. It was kinda strange, and my sister decided to feed it half a packet of crisps (  ), just becuase of it's disability. Well, it wasent really disabled, it just leaned to it's left all the time.
Anyway, Why the hell am I telling you this! 
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December 7th, 2007, 09:08 PM
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Let me see.......................a Harrier
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December 7th, 2007, 09:17 PM
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Yes, you are correct. A Hen Harrier to be exact. Beautiful...just like the plane!
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December 7th, 2007, 09:20 PM
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Hmmm....
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December 7th, 2007, 09:29 PM
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Yes, you are correct. A Hen Harrier to be exact. Beautiful...just like the plane!
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I almost said a swamp harrier but I only know of two kinds of Harriers.
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December 7th, 2007, 09:49 PM
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I saw the F-22 at the air show and it was awesome. That pilot had the plane at a standstill just like a harrier and then poof, he was gone. Another impressve plane was the C-17. It actually landed, stopped short, backed up and then took off.
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They are incredible aren't they, watched a C-17 over Brize Norton a while ago and it moved like a fighter, haven't seen something that size with that level of agility other than those videos of Vulcans.
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December 7th, 2007, 09:59 PM
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yes Pzjgr!! the A-10 Warthog Tank Killer!!
here's a nice shot of her nose cannon!
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December 7th, 2007, 10:03 PM
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I would not want to be on the receiving end of that runny nose.... 
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December 7th, 2007, 11:16 PM
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yeah buddy! you aint kiddin'!
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December 7th, 2007, 11:34 PM
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YouTube - A-10 Thunderbolt in the action
The Warthog in action......Just call me PZJGR
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December 8th, 2007, 08:58 AM
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The A-10 just puts the America's love of massive firepower into one plane. 
They say you get hit by the shells before you hear the gun...must have been terrifying for anyone on the receiving end to see one of those swoop towards you!
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For me its the North American F-86 Sabre...king of the Korean Sky
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