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HOW AN A-10 PILOT SURVIVED A MISSILE HIT OVER BAGHDAD
« on: May 09, 2023, 02:19:07 pm »
HOW AN A-10 PILOT SURVIVED A MISSILE HIT OVER BAGHDAD
May 8, 2023Lauren Warner
 

Kim Campbell is not your average Air Force pilot. In fact, there’s nothing average about her. The year Campbell entered the Air Force Academy — 1993 — was the first year the Air Force allowed females to become fighter pilots. Thirty years later, only 20% of all Air Force pilots are female.

Campbell joined the 75th Fighter Squadron as an A-10 pilot in 2000. At that time, there were only 43 female fighter pilots in the Air Force, just more than 1% of the entire fighter pilot force; today, that percentage has roughly doubled.

However, her journey to becoming a pilot began many years earlier.

“When I was in fifth grade, I decided I wanted to be an astronaut,” Campbell said. “I remember watching the launch of the space shuttle Challenger in 1986. At that moment, there was the thrill and excitement of the launch and then the devastation that played out.

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Re: HOW AN A-10 PILOT SURVIVED A MISSILE HIT OVER BAGHDAD
« Reply #1 on: May 09, 2023, 02:21:02 pm »
@Smokin Joe

Here's another advantage of the A-10, women can fly it.  Just kidding, just kidding.  But the advantage over the Harrier is survivability.
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Re: HOW AN A-10 PILOT SURVIVED A MISSILE HIT OVER BAGHDAD
« Reply #2 on: May 09, 2023, 02:32:17 pm »
Pic of the damage:

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Re: HOW AN A-10 PILOT SURVIVED A MISSILE HIT OVER BAGHDAD
« Reply #3 on: May 09, 2023, 02:32:54 pm »
The A-10 is the Timex of support aircraft:  takes a lickin' and keeps on tickin'
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Re: HOW AN A-10 PILOT SURVIVED A MISSILE HIT OVER BAGHDAD
« Reply #4 on: May 09, 2023, 02:34:54 pm »
Quote from: Kamaji on May 09, 2023, 02:32:54 pm
The A-10 is the Timex of support aircraft:  takes a lickin' and keeps on tickin'

And the Air Force cannot wait to shit can them!
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Re: HOW AN A-10 PILOT SURVIVED A MISSILE HIT OVER BAGHDAD
« Reply #5 on: May 09, 2023, 03:21:24 pm »
Quote from: Bigun on May 09, 2023, 02:34:54 pm
And the Air Force cannot wait to shit can them!

I know, which is just mind-boggling. 
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Re: HOW AN A-10 PILOT SURVIVED A MISSILE HIT OVER BAGHDAD
« Reply #6 on: May 09, 2023, 03:53:01 pm »
Quote from: Kamaji on May 09, 2023, 03:21:24 pm
I know, which is just mind-boggling.

Not really. It makes perfect sense for them. (Opportunities in procurement.)
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Re: HOW AN A-10 PILOT SURVIVED A MISSILE HIT OVER BAGHDAD
« Reply #7 on: May 09, 2023, 04:39:00 pm »
Just think of the damage Gen. Davis can do as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs! OMGGGGGGG
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Re: HOW AN A-10 PILOT SURVIVED A MISSILE HIT OVER BAGHDAD
« Reply #8 on: May 09, 2023, 04:43:48 pm »
I heard A-10s are tank killers.  Does flying them in combat make that a tankless job?  :pondering:
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Re: HOW AN A-10 PILOT SURVIVED A MISSILE HIT OVER BAGHDAD
« Reply #9 on: May 10, 2023, 12:39:16 am »
Quote from: bigheadfred on May 09, 2023, 04:43:48 pm
I heard A-10s are tank killers.  Does flying them in combat make that a tankless job?  :pondering:
No, what makes it t'ankless is knowing that your own brass are gunning for your plane, too.
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Re: HOW AN A-10 PILOT SURVIVED A MISSILE HIT OVER BAGHDAD
« Reply #10 on: May 10, 2023, 12:46:27 am »
Quote from: Bigun on May 09, 2023, 02:34:54 pm
And the Air Force cannot wait to shit can them!

The USAF has been trying since the late 1970s. At the time I was a junior tech testing and aligning A-10 Projection Units (aka Head-Up Displays). The USAF bigwigs just weren't into CAS.
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