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The front landing gear is offset to allow room for the 30mm cannon.

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The ailerons are significantly larger than most aircraft, making the A-10 highly maneuverable at slow speeds.

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The main landing gear wheels stick out from the nacelles even when they are retracted, causing less damage to the aircraft if it has to land gear-up.

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The aircraft is designed to fly with one engine, one tail, one elevator, and half of one wing missing.

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In total, over 700 A-10s have been produced. And with tens of thousands of missions flown over 37 years, it's the most successful close air support aircraft of all time.

Take a GAU-8 30MM cannon -- build a bad ass bird around it ... TAZ :flag::flag::flag:

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The speed at which the 30mm cannon shells travel at is 3,324 ft/s. To put that into perspective . . . the top speed of the SR 71 Blackbird was 3,227 ft/s. (2200 MPH)

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On Nov. 16, 1970, the Air Force issued a request for proposal for a 30mm rapid fire cannon to use in the A-X Close Air Support aircraft. In June of 1971 General Electric and Philco Ford were selected to build the prototype gun, designated GAU-8. Besides development of the gun, the contract called for the development of four types of ammunition: Armor Piercing Incendiary, High Explosive Incendiary, Semi-Armor Piercing High Explosive and Target Practice.

The A10 is one bad machine!

i live by the downtown Kansas City Airport, and i get to see the hogs often...i also live close to Whiteman..and the things i see there are amazing..

in July i get to see fighters at tree top level as they show up and practice for the air show..along with older stuff too..the Angels where here..very cool..its freaking awesome..and they are huge, when youre close..