Headspace Posted November 19, 2011 Posted November 19, 2011 This was on the Popular Mechanics website: The NSF recently awarded a $10.9 million grant to the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif., a to refurbish a retired Thunderbolt for use as a storm-penetrating research plane, the journal Science reported this week. Stripped of weapons and outfitted with instruments and sensors, the extra-tough A-10 will let researchers study massive, energetic storms from the inside, increasing their understanding of how these damaging storms form and evolve, and helping meteorologists predict when and where they will strike. Read more: Weather-Studying Warthog: A Fixed-Up A-10 Will Fly Into Thunderstorms - A-10 Thunderbolt II - Popular Mechanics Personally it sounds kind of hokey, but there is a use for it. I wonder if the gun will remain attached to the aircraft or not--my understanding is that it will absolutely have to be in order to maintain CG, unless they install equipment in the front of the plane of equal weight (good luck with that).
EtherealN Posted November 19, 2011 Posted November 19, 2011 Never underestimate the utility of lead bricks. :D [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Daniel "EtherealN" Agorander | Даниэль "эфирныйн" Агорандер Intel i7 2600K @ 4.4GHz, ASUS Sabertooth P67, 8GB Corsair Vengeance @ 1600MHz, ASUS GTX 560Ti DirectCU II 1GB, Samsung 830series 512GB SSD, Corsair AX850w, two BENQ screens and TM HOTAS Warthog DCS: A-10C Warthog FAQ | DCS: P-51D FAQ | Remember to read the Forum Rules | | | Life of a Game Tester
nscode Posted November 19, 2011 Posted November 19, 2011 F-18, C-130 and P-3 were used for this at some time IIRC Never forget that World War III was not Cold for most of us.
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