I think I posted about this before, but we had A-10s at RAF Alconbury when I was stationed there in the early '90s. For a while I had to walk to work around the back 25% of the runway while they were redoing my computer room and upgrading my mainframe. They constructed a Transportable Shelter System (TSS) - about 4 or 5 reinforced steel trailers put together to house a smaller version of the mainframe I ran - and I was out there for 3-5 months. That's probably part of the reason I have bad hearing and tinnitus.
One afternoon I was walking back to the dorms on a nice day, and the next thing I knew an A-10 quietly came up behind me really low. Just after he passed over me he went into a big climb, and looped upside down and back over me. I didn't know they could even do that, and also didn't know they could do loops. Those things can be really quiet.
I found out later that it was practicing for our upcoming airshow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvIJvPj_pjE
Saw one flying low and slow a couple of years ago, I think it was on it's way to an air show. So cool to see that thing in the air.
I think I posted about this before, but we had A-10s at RAF Alconbury when I was stationed there in the early '90s. For a while I had to walk to work around the back 25% of the runway while they were redoing my computer room and upgrading my mainframe. They constructed a Transportable Shelter System (TSS) - about 4 or 5 reinforced steel trailers put together to house a smaller version of the mainframe I ran - and I was out there for 3-5 months. That's probably part of the reason I have bad hearing and tinnitus.
One afternoon I was walking back to the dorms on a nice day, and the next thing I knew an A-10 quietly came up behind me really low. Just after he passed over me he went into a big climb, and looped upside down and back over me. I didn't know they could even do that, and also didn't know they could do loops. Those things can be really quiet.
I found out later that it was practicing for our upcoming airshow.
That is so cool! They are just awesome jets