Fred,
Camp Atterbury sounds familiar from listening to AFR, but I can't say I know
where it is. I was at Osan Apr 94-95. Got to see the hogs at Kooni. How
was the flying in Korea? The fighter jocks I talked to seemed to love it.
I had a chance to join the Osan aeroclub, but it seemed to be a waste of
time - nowhere to fly to that you could get to in a 172, the skies full of
fighters and helos, and the ground covered in SAMS and ack-ack sites manned
by bored ROK conscripts. I was there when that dipstick helo pilot got lost
over the border and got his crew chief killed in the ensuing debacle. And
what did they do? They sent him home early for his transgressions, the
*******! They should have tacked on another tour!!

On the topic of the GAU-8, I've got a friend here in the UK who likes to
tell the following story:

The RAF has a gunnery range out on the East coast in an area of shallow
water and mud known as The Wash. He starts the story by saying it's no
wonder the RAF don't seem too potent but the USAF dominates the skies. He
was working on a piece of equipment within about 2 miles of the gunnery
range one afternoon and watched a Tornado (could have been a Harrier, I
suppose - not really important) come in on the target with some kind of gun
lobbing single rounds at it - POOMP...POOMP...POOMP. And you could see
little splashes where the shells were hitting. "That's pretty cool", he
thinks. About an hour later, an A-10 came by for the same thing. He lined
up on the target, then my friend describes hearing a helacious buzzing
sound - BZZZZZT and then watching as an acre of mud threw itself a hundred
feet into the air. (he usually expresses this part by throwing his arms up
over his head at the same time!). Now THAT'S firepower!

Great story anyway.

The only other time I got to Kooni was with the CATM (Combat Arms Training
Somethingorother) when we got to fire the .50 off the beach. That was a
great day! Didn't hit the target too often but managed to scare the hell
out of a lot of fish!

Shawn


"Frederick Wilson" wrote in message
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Shawn,

I was in Korea in '96-'97, when were you there. I was a maintenance test
pilot for oh-58's. I use to do my engine performance checks at 10,000'.
Why?
Because I could. Anyway the A-10s would almost always come check me out.
It
was pretty cool. They'd be close enough to wave at each other. One time
the
guy help up a piece of paper that said "Happy Easter".

And boy does that A-10 30 mm rock. We have a range some 4 miles from my
airfield on Camp Atterbury. We can hear that cannon from our building. It
is
pretty cool to watch. You can see the at a high angle climb and then snap
it
over, THEN you hear the cannon. BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZT!

The mini gun on the task force MH-60K is pretty impressive too.

Fred


"ShawnD2112" wrote in message
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The A-10 doesn't have burners, but that gun does sound awfully cool!
The
engines sound pretty neat, too, as they buzz rather then shriek like
most
jets. We had them at Osan AB in Korea when I was there and I got to see
them on the gunnery range once. Most impressive!

Shawn
"Tom Hyslip" wrote in message
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I would have to say an A-10 "warthog" coming in for close ground
support
with the 30mm vulican cannon blazing. Then hitting the afterburners on
the
pull out.

Amazing, and I sure wouldn't want to be on the recieving end of the
30mm
cannon.


"DeltaDeltaDelta" wrote in message
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This came to mind when I heard a RAF VC-10K overflying my house at
some
1000
feet AGL at full steam. What a sound! The VC-10 both looks and
sounds
powerful. Also, the piston Yak-52 I heard a few days
ago...unbelievable,
such a powerful and awe inspiring sound. The only thing I regret is
never
hearing a DC-6 at full throttle; watching a documentary on ConAir
firefighting services today (on Discovery Science) I heard one pilot
remark
that those 76 cylinders at full power sound 'like a Hell's Angels
funeral'.

Triple Delta