Cadets work to improve ‘Warthog’ technology
By Ray Bowden, Nov. 15, 2017 U.S. AIR FORCE ACADEMY -- Want to increase aircraft capabilities and blow more things up? If you’re an A-10 Thunderbolt II pilot, you might just be in luck today. Cadets 1st Class Jon Clegg and John Potthoff, aided by Dr. Thomas Yechout, their aeronautics professor, said they developed a tag-team attitude while working together to research decreasing maintenance requirements and increase munitions capability for the Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft. Nicknamed the “Warthog,” the Thunderbolt II is a single-seat, twin-engine, straight-wing jet aircraft flown by the U.S. military since 1972. “We’re working together to...
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