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(Air) Hog Wild! A-10 Live Fire in Arizona

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FlyingPhotog
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Oct 31, 2010 17:34 |  #1

Range Safety Tower: our shooting platform for the day:

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High-Tech Safety Device: Wires outside line up with grease pencil marks allowing the range safety officer to determine altitude minima for different attack profiles
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Eyeballing The Target (or Me .. Not quite sure...)
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Left Break Off Target:
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What a hundred rounds of 30mm will do:
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C&C Welcome... Enjoy! Stay Tuned for Part II: Viper Time!

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Oct 31, 2010 17:43 |  #2

Excellent. The bullet leaving is sweet. I love American toys...

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Oct 31, 2010 17:44 |  #3

Awesome series, looks like a blast to shoot. Love the noise of those guns too.




  
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Oct 31, 2010 17:44 |  #4

Great set!

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Oct 31, 2010 18:17 |  #5

Awesome set. Looking forward to the next one.

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Oct 31, 2010 19:48 as a reply to  @ cicopo's post |  #6

What a cool opportunity and amazing shots as always!




  
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Oct 31, 2010 20:46 |  #7

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Oct 31, 2010 21:01 as a reply to  @ PhotosGuy's post |  #8

Love the shots.
That 30mm is AWESOME....
Very impressive plane. worked on A-10's at DM in 90-91 before getting out of USAF in 91.

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Oct 31, 2010 21:05 |  #9

Awesome set Jay.. Simply awesome.

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Oct 31, 2010 23:17 |  #10

That fourth and fifth shot is hot Jay.




  
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Oct 31, 2010 23:19 as a reply to  @ jdizzle's post |  #11

Wow!!!

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Oct 31, 2010 23:47 |  #12

you can shoot hundreds of pics of the Hog, but where you get to see that baseball sized piece of lead coming out of the gau.....epic!

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Nov 01, 2010 06:03 |  #13

Wow, nice, left break giving you the top view is my favorite, lovely.

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Nov 01, 2010 09:39 |  #14

Those are all great, in all the threads Jay. What an opportunity! How far was the tower from the target?

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Nov 01, 2010 14:12 |  #15

Glad these are well received.

The GAU-8 Avenger is like nothing you've ever seen, heard or felt. There are four distinct sounds associated with an A-10 strafing pass:
1) Aircraft Engines (the A-10 is fairly quiet but you can hear it coming)
2) Rounds Going Transonic (a very distinctive and frightening KEEEERACK!)
3) The heavy "BURRRRRRAP" of the gun being fired
4) Rounds impacting target (like a string of firecrackers going off)

And yes, you really do hear 2 before you hear 3...

@ Ryan: The target was probably another 200 yards beyond the tower as you look at it in #1... They had these long rows of tires painted white which were the "Foul Line" for each strafing chute. Pilots are supposed to be off the trigger and coming off target before reaching these lines (aircraft moving from camera right to camera left):

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They also did Rocket practice:
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