Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/05/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]As someone who was often on the ground cursing because my buttons were too
thick, I would have been very happy if the flyboys had had the Warthogs in
1968/69......
You will never know how many men wanted to buy a beer or two for a pilot.
Clive Moss <clive.moss@gmail.com> wrote:
Seems that they should aim them backwards to generate more thrust.
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Clive
http://www.clive.moss.net/blog/
on 5/19/2007 1:30 PM Rei Shinozuka said the following:
> factoid:
>
> the A10 wathog is literally built around the GAU8, a 30mm 4,200 RPM
> gatling
> gun, the largest and most powerful gatling ever made. the GAU8
> actually has more recoil (19,000 lbs) than the total thrust generated
> by it two turbofan engines (9,000 lbs each).
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