Wulfman; thanks for the great article. I've got to come clean on two discrepancies though.

1) A warthog has never ever shot down a super sonic fighter. A warthog most likely can't unless that fighter is being piloted by a chimpanzee in some freak experiment. Hogs are only on record shooting down helicopters (sorry Mike King and Terry G.)

2) The A-10 does have one frill. The newest ones came from the factory with sheep skin seat covers! Talk about plush.

Sageadvice, Vipers (F-16s) are pretty much Kings of the Airshow circuit. One of my friends is an F-16 guy who's unit switched to A-10s recently. I was hoping he'd be a "where has this plane been all of my life" kind of guy, but alas, it's hard to give up the ability to kill almost everything else in the air, the ability to paint victims with your own radar, and the ability to say, "Yeah, I pull about 9 Gs on a regular basis." But at least he admits that he flies a hog.

Again, thanks for the cool article. I'm a T-38 instructor at Vance AFB now, but I still remember what gun gas smells like. I wish the Fayco Sheriff would put one in the budget. It would shorten those police chases quite a bit.

Kevin "Hack" King
(anyone want two dogs??? Seriously; two really nice dogs.)