NAMM pics

[Guest]

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Scott,

That Warrior is a CS tribute to the Worthog plane. Kevin or someone can probably give you the whole sccop and history on the plane, but basically it was a WWII plane that would always get shot up and somehow return home, most of the time full of holes, so those 2 guitars are tributes to our Armed Forces in a couple of different ways.

Hope that helps!
Pat

[Baum83]

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Actually, it's a tribute to a cold-war plane - the A-10 "Thunderbird" II (there was a P47 T-Bird (1) in WW2, the one Pat referred to). It's a Close-Air-Support Plane, and pretty ****ing ugly, hence the name Warthog - but also because it usually flies very low in order to avoid detection, and because it couldn't hold itself in aerial combat.
Anyway, it sports about the largest gun ever carried by an aeroplane, the whole A10 is built around that gun (GAU-2 Avenger or something - you'll know why it has that name once you'll see it [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img] ). It's that gun with the uranium ammo everyone was *****ing about in Kosovo etc - that uranium also makes it very effective, 2 or 3 rounds and one tank is history. FYI, if the A10 would fire full auto without stopping, it would be unable to continue flying due to the recoil. Hehe.

[ July 22, 2003, 03:13 PM: Message edited by: Baum83 ]

[~K~]

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The A-10 is in fact a tank buster. They are used for close ground support and they are supposed to be able to take an extraordinary amount of hits and still be able to fly. It was used extensively in both gulf wars and afganastan.

[shreddermon]

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Originally posted by Baum83:
Actually, it's a tribute to a cold-war plane - the A-10 "Thunderbird" II (there was a P47 T-Bird (1) in WW2, the one Pat referred to).

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Thunderbolt, not Thunderbird.

The Thunderbird is a Ford. Or it's the Air Force's precision flying team. (...Who fly F-16s, BTW.) [img]graemlins/images/icons/tongue.gif[/img]

[~K~]

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attaboy shred... I prefer the blue angels tho

[StukaJU87]

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but basically it was a WWII plane

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">If we had this in WWII the war would've taken minutes instead of years. [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]

Yeah dudes. I knew the A10 Warthog was a plane. I just meant that I thought the graphic was nice and that it would have looked better on a full Warrior body.

[StukaJU87]

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attaboy shred... I prefer the blue angels tho

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Me TOO!!!

[shreddermon]

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Kev & Stuka: you guys must've watched the "Dreams" video way too much. [img]graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] j/k They're both cool.

[Baum83]

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Originally posted by shreddermon:
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Baum83:
Actually, it's a tribute to a cold-war plane - the A-10 "Thunderbird" II (there was a P47 T-Bird (1) in WW2, the one Pat referred to).

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Thunderbolt, not Thunderbird.

The Thunderbird is a Ford. Or it's the Air Force's precision flying team. (...Who fly F-16s, BTW.) [img]graemlins/images/icons/tongue.gif[/img] </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">[img]graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

Damn, I knew something was wrong, but I couldn't quite put my finger on it [img]graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]
Of course it's the Thunderbolt... well, for someone who's lost their interest for that subject matter about 3 years ago I think it was still pretty good. Apart from the name, of course. [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]

[Jim Shine]

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Originally posted by BGWwebguy:
Thanks toejam. Can I use that pic on my site?

Brooks

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Brooks, email me at fenderjaguar1962 @ hotmail.com and I will give you the email address of the guy who owns those. He is real cool and will no doubt let you use them, but I think he would still like to be asked.

[Number Of The Priest]

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The cannon on the A-10 is a 30mm GAU-8 Avenger (just to correct whoever said it was GAU-2). I used to be a real aviation enthusiast in my early-to-mid teenaged years before one interest replaced another (guitar replaced my passion for planes).

Fabulous pictures. The graveyard graphic is beautiful.

[ July 22, 2003, 05:47 PM: Message edited by: Number Of The Priest ]

[Michiel Angelo]

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Isn't this very old?

[Guest]

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Isn't what very old?

( Musta missed it )

Pat

[charvelguy]

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Guitar porn...

nice inlay work..on the dragon and that birdseye neck on the strathead! oh baby! yeah, yeah, yeah!

ok.. time to get laid. Anyone got 4 grand I can borrow? She ain't a cheap date.

[Genebaby]

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Wow, cool, cool stuff indeed....you guys that get to go are very lucky indeed...if anybody can get me a 2003 catalog and 25th Ani Charvel Flyer, pls email me, I would love to get those...