A-10 Re: OFF: UK Charts

[Carl Edlund Anderson]

On tor 6 aug 1998 10.36 +0100 bart <bart at AEOLIANS.BT.CO.UK> wrote:
>[Carl wrote:]
>> Still, the A-10 is my fave.  Low, slow, and heavy-hitting.
>> The Kyuss of Airplanes!
>
> Then Carl, you should have been around these parts about 12 years ago.
With
> Woodbridge & Bentwaters US airbases a stones throw away, there were more
A10s
> in the sky than you could shake a stick at.

     Actually, I was :)  Lived near Cambridge '83-'84.  (Actually
saw the big Traveller encampment at Stonehenge back then, though had
no idea what the heck it was!)

> Anyway, the coolest aircraft IMHO were the 'Nam era US planes. Super
Sabres,
> Thuds, Corsairs, Phantoms...

     Ah, Thuds--those were cool.  Phantom was prety cool once
they realized they shoulda stuck a gun on it ;)

Cheers,
Carl

ObCD: _Captured Rotation_

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Carl Edlund Anderson
Dept. of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, & Celtic
St. John's College, University of Cambridge
mailto:cea20 at cus.cam.ac.uk
http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~carl/