2019年7月17日 · Perhaps this isn't on-topic, but is the A-10 effective against tanks (tank armour) when using its cannon? For example, this page claims: Using the cannon, the A-10 is capable of disabling a main

2017年7月1日 · $\begingroup$ The big problem with the GAU-8 and the A10 during development wasn't recoil, it was the smoke from the cannon shell propellant blowing the engines out. If you've ever seen the oft repeated video of a pilot punching out of an A10, and the aircraft then crashing into a desert, that's what happened: during a test, the cannon smoke ...

2017年12月4日 · I just read on reddit that you could use the recoil of the gun as the propelling force for the A-10 if pointed backwards. There is also a question here on Aviation.SE, saying that the gun has the s...

2019年8月28日 · I found a 1955 NACA research memorandum entitled "STALL AND FLAME-OUT RESULTING FROM FIRING OF ARMAMENT", specifically looking at flameouts in the F-86, F-94, and other aircraft associated with the firing of guns or rockets (especially in the case of the F-94, which had a nose-mounted rocket pod).

2017年12月6日 · Has the A-10 Thunderbolt ever flown without the GAU-8? Can it be done with a ballast in place of the gun? I'm not referring only to the combat role of the A-10, a plane used for training or a ferry

2016年4月15日 · The wingtip devices used in A-10 Warthogs are called drooped wingtips (also called Hoerner wingtips in some cases), which essentially increase the aspect ratio of the wing by forcing the vortices further out.

2016年7月2日 · The pilot's helmet in the photo is a standard Gentex HGU-55/P fitted with a Thales Aerospace Scorpion Helmet Mounted Cueing System.

2024年5月6日 · Look at a 737, A320, A330, etc. All of them have upturned winglets. Why are they all upturned instead of downturned?

2014年9月24日 · For example, the A10 Warthog's bread and butter is its main cannon. Though this plane is primarily designed with the elimination of ground targets in mind. (As someone noted the A10 is an attack aircraft. I'm merely noting this aircraft's reliance on its cannon for ground attacks as a justification for the above supposition.

2020年12月22日 · The A10 is flying high and fast (for an A10)--but the 135 if flying low and really slow (as in: drop not only the flaps, but also the landing gear to add drag). As others have also alluded, you do need more maneuvering than just normal flying so as a starting point, take the aircraft with the lower cruising altitude, and subtract something like ...