A-10 Demo from inside the cockpit

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And before anyone asks - yes, I AM affiliated with this one. I've known Gator for a few years now even before he was the demo pilot. He's one of the good ones, down to Earth and always takes care of the controllers and we take care of him. Three times during his show he does a "tail slap" which you will see in the video and watch the whole plane shudder. When he does this, you can hear it. He always does it when he practices on the other side of the runway from the tower so we never get to hear and feel the full effect. He's handing his job off to Captain Lyndsey Johnson and her first demo is coming up this week. She's equally down to Earth and always a pleasure to have in the tower as SOF.

Anyway, its a good video of what goes on inside the cockpit. Try to ignore the robot like antics of his ground crew, that part is a little hokey.

 
What would be a nice video is ruined by the out of control ads and popups.
 
Timbeck2 said:
And before anyone asks - yes, I AM affiliated with this one. I've known Gator for a few years now even before he was the demo pilot. He's one of the good ones, down to Earth and always takes care of the controllers and we take care of him. Three times during his show he does a "tail slap" which you will see in the video and watch the whole plane shudder. When he does this, you can hear it. He always does it when he practices on the other side of the runway from the tower so we never get to hear and feel the full effect. He's handing his job off to Captain Lyndsey Johnson and her first demo is coming up this week. She's equally down to Earth and always a pleasure to have in the tower as SOF.

Anyway, its a good video of what goes on inside the cockpit. Try to ignore the robot like antics of his ground crew, that part is a little hokey.

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What’s SOF?
 
Timbeck2 said:
And before anyone asks - yes, I AM affiliated with this one. I've known Gator for a few years now even before he was the demo pilot. He's one of the good ones, down to Earth and always takes care of the controllers and we take care of him. Three times during his show he does a "tail slap" which you will see in the video and watch the whole plane shudder. When he does this, you can hear it. He always does it when he practices on the other side of the runway from the tower so we never get to hear and feel the full effect. He's handing his job off to Captain Lyndsey Johnson and her first demo is coming up this week. She's equally down to Earth and always a pleasure to have in the tower as SOF.

Anyway, its a good video of what goes on inside the cockpit. Try to ignore the robot like antics of his ground crew, that part is a little hokey.

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Do you have an SOF up there all the time?
 
Timbeck2 said:
Three times during his show he does a "tail slap" which you will see in the video and watch the whole plane shudder.
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Thanks for nerd sniping me on this 'tail slap' thing. o_O It has assumed a place of honor between autoroll and radome-gouge nose-slice departures. :cool:

Nauga,
collector of aerodynamic oddities
 
Country Flier said:
What would be a nice video is ruined by the out of control ads and popups.
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I think this is YT's way of trying to force 'premium' on people. Make the ad frequency unbearable until they buy the ad opt out package!!
 
That was cool, thanks for the share
 
Gator flies the best A-10 demo I’ve ever seen. He is next level!

The tail slap, aka squat - is that an aggressive leveling off or to bleed a ton of speed right now on an attack run, or is it strictly an airshow maneuver?
 
Over the years it seems like the squat has gotten more aggressive. You can bet if the slats are out, vapor above the wing and tip vortices at a large angle vs the nose angle, it’s probably a good pull.

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ateamer said:
Gator flies the best A-10 demo I’ve ever seen. He is next level!

The tail slap, aka squat - is that an aggressive leveling off or to bleed a ton of speed right now on an attack run, or is it strictly an airshow maneuver?
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You know more about it than I do since I was the one, for lack of a better term, called the maneuver a tail slap. I would venture to guess that its just an air show thing.
 
ateamer said:
The tail slap, aka squat...
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Ahhh....mystery (maybe) solved...? Hornets can squat, but I'd never heard that term applied to anything else. I didn't see anything on the linked video that looked like a Hornet-type squat, but I wasn't really looking for that, either.

Nauga,
and a windscreen full of jet
 
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