Always enjoyed seeing or hearing the A-10's fly overhead when I still lived near a base. We always knew when a deployment was coming up, as the local news would report about it. In most cases that meant that the local PD would be a man short for awhile; one of their officers was a pilot, you see. Got a lot of respect for folks who choose those risky lines of work. They're comprised of far better and more courageous stuff than I am.
The canopy in Oberon's picture looks pretty beat up. Is there a backstory to that, or just wear and tear?
