first time i saw an A-10 i was at the top of a box canyon up in the globe. az. area...
no one ever went there...extreme terrain. almost 80 % grade to the slope....the mouth of the canyon opened into another canyon every bit as nasty.
i hear this airfoil cutting through the narrow mouth, and turn my head in time to see, pull here in case of emergency sticker below the cockpit.
WOW....that bad boy snuck up on me, and was DOWN through the canyon, up the next canyon and GONE, before the jet noise hit me...
if he had his gear down he could have left tire prints on the hillside...
i swear that pilot was smiling.