A 1/5 scale model A-10 Warthog. Which drops bombs.
(H/T to Jeff for the link)
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Noooowwwww, where can you get 1/5 scale Rockeyes and FAEs?
Dunno…thought you’d say something like you’re too big to sit in the 1/5th scale…have to have the big one…
Definitely cool. Although, for $12k I can think of quite a few toys that would be cooler to own.
A-10s aren’t quite the airshow eyecandy that the go-fast jets are, but I’m a little biased toward them. Gotta love a plane whose inspiration was the Spad.
There’s a couple of videos out there for the SST and also a Flanker. The Flanker is seriously awesome, at least it was pretty cool to me.
Probably has significantly more computing power than the A-10 had when it was build.
Full size or scale model – you know what I’m gonna say…WOOT!
New A-10C with glass cockpit, new wings, soa sensors and all the J-series weps wedded to that big gun and bomb toting capability: the ultimate, fixed-wing, persistent CAS machine..Gotta love those full sipping TF34 engines too! Call it old all you want, this is the best of the best for that role.
The cliche “Speed is life” may be true over a conventional battlefield, but the USAF would be twice as effective if it was able to trade 400 Vipers for 400 more Warthogs today! IMO, the Marines would have been smart to have bought these and restarted the production line insead of JSF VTOL…
b2
Every time I hear the Warthog (real one) depart I always suffer a disconnect with the sound of the “Hoover’s” engines on that killing machine!
B2-
Sadly, USAF prejudice and corporate stupidity have killed any chance of ever restarting the A-10 line – back in the late 80s-early 90s, Fairchild was bidding on the USAF’s next gen trainer contract, and asked if the could dispose of the tooling and jigs for the Hog. The USAF basically said, “Sure – WE’LL never need the damn thing again and we’re going to get rid of it as soon as we decently can.” Fairchild couldn’t afford to store the tooling and jigs, so they were sold for scrap.
Mike
You know, every time I hear the old “tooling and jigs” statement, I just got to wonder, “did they throw away the drawings?” Because that’s where the skull sweat is. It wouldn’t exactly be cheap to bring the bird back into production (or any other retired aircraft, but it wouldn’t be nearly as expensive as doing it from scratch.
Here is a link from Popular Science that shows pictures of the other R/C aircraft. There are a couple of photos that on first glance you’d think that they are the real thing.
http://www.popsci.com/military-aviation-space/gallery/2008-04/top-gun-2008-pictures
Mike Kozlowski,
re _” Fairchild couldn’t afford to store the tooling and jigs, so they were sold for scrap”
Not good; but not as “fatal” as it was in prior decades..engineering wise. Sounds like the same innate “institutional” bias against the S-3 Viking in the US Navy….
At least the USAF sunk 1.8 Bil into A-10C. That’s something! Thankfully.
b2
There is a RC Tomcat out there, wings swing and all, will need to go find it. Not quite as purdy a model as that A10 but it does have its own challenges…
OK, Google / YouTube, so hard to do these days:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSRHNLxSzIA
(please pardon the music)
As an old SPAD driver I can assure that the A-10 does make my heart pump faster.