Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/05/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]As someone who was often on the ground cursing because my buttons were too thick, I would have been very happy if the flyboys had had the Warthogs in 1968/69...... You will never know how many men wanted to buy a beer or two for a pilot. Clive Moss <clive.moss@gmail.com> wrote: Seems that they should aim them backwards to generate more thrust. -- Clive http://www.clive.moss.net/blog/ on 5/19/2007 1:30 PM Rei Shinozuka said the following: > factoid: > > the A10 wathog is literally built around the GAU8, a 30mm 4,200 RPM > gatling > gun, the largest and most powerful gatling ever made. the GAU8 > actually has more recoil (19,000 lbs) than the total thrust generated > by it two turbofan engines (9,000 lbs each). _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information "Cynic, n. a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be." --Ambrose Bierce --------------------------------- Yahoo! oneSearch: Finally, mobile search that gives answers, not web links.