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Originally Posted by GoldenRivet
every pilot has a plane he prefers over another of the exact same type.
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This is very true in many fighter wings the wing commanders assigned aircraft will have a brushed stainless steel fairing around the cannon port and on the A-10 it looks very nice being instead the entire muzzle.When I was stationed at Davis-Monthan,AZ the wing commander had two A-10s that he preferred one was his deployment/combat aircraft and that one did not normally have the fancy GAU-8 muzzle.Usually he only flew his officially assigned A-10 for official events but on exercises he would have the stainless steel GAU-8 muzzle placed on his "combat" A-10 I guess he felt that the "combat" A-10 did not look as sharp but flew better.