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[ElBuni @therealbuni]

El loco re feliz que le pasaban los aviones de combate por arriba y no entendia que lo estan usando de práctica de tiro jsjs
(Igual re piola)

[A-10 Thunderbolt II "Warthog" @A10TheHog]

Thunderbolt Over Baghdad, 'Pilot-Dude' Down in the Countryside

Maj. Jim Ewald had just finished a close-air support mission over Baghdad when his A-10 Thunderbolt II was hit by an Iraqi surface-to-air missile April 8, 2003.

It physically moved the plane "like the hand of God," Ewald said during a Pentagon interview July 16.

Ewald is a pilot with the 110th Fighter Wing out of Battle Creek, Mich.

The missile came up from the southwest, and Ewald said he never saw it. But he had no doubt a missile had hit him.

"I could see a reddish glow on my cockpit instruments from the fire behind me," he said. His second thought was that he had not been wounded.

It was then that the airplane “departed from controlled flight,” he said.

"That's just the way we say, ‘I was trying to fly the airplane one way, but the airplane was off doing its own thing,’" the Michigan guardsman said.

Ewald was soon able to regain control.

"I was very fortunate to be flying this mission in an A-10, because had I not, I would have bailed out right there," he said. "My next thought was 'I don't want to bail out right over Baghdad or I'm going to be in it deep.'"

He and his wingman headed out of Baghdad and sought American lines.

"It was physically hard (to fly the plane),” Ewald said. "I was manipulating everything with all the muscles in my body. I had flight-control problems. I had engine problems. I had fuel-flow problems. I had hydraulic problems … not to mention that I had an airplane that was disintegrating. I looked back once, and I could see little parts falling off the engine, and I thought, 'I really don't know what that is, but I think I need it.' "

As he continued south, he lost one of the engines completely, and he ejected.

"The ejection seat was packed by one of my new best friends out of Boise, Idaho, and it worked perfectly," Ewald said.

After he hit the ground, he mistook the A-10’s 30 mm rounds exploding in the burning airplane for incoming Iraqi fire. He ran to hide in a dried canal behind some reeds. He heard engine noise and hoped that the vehicle was American.

"I knew the 3rd Infantry Division had been in the area, but I didn't know if it was still there," Ewald said.

There were Fedayeen Saddam paramilitary forces still running around, he said, and he could not see very well.

"I heard one yell in English, but I thought maybe this guy went to language school," Ewald said. "Then I heard another voice yell in English, 'Hey, pilot dude. Come out. We're Americans.'"

There was no mistaking the accent, he said.

"He sounded like your typical 19-year-old American," Ewald said. "I thought, ‘That's something you don't learn in language school.’"

The soldiers were from the Army's 54th Engineer Battalion, and they had seen Ewald eject. They arrived some 10 to 15 minutes after he hit the ground, he said.

Ewald went back to the 110th FW and was back into the cockpit within 48 hours.

[Aviation @xAviation]

Blackhawk helicopter creates its own waves for a wake surfer!

📹: vaultedoriginals

[Aviation @xAviation]

One of the coolest high-speed passes I’ve seen! We love a huge vapor cone!

📹: zeelikesplanes

[Aviation @xAviation]

Pilot sees a speedboat, Alright boys, buckle up!
A Chinook just toying around with a speedboat

[Francisco Cunha @OnDisasters]

B-52 crew practicing a scramble. Note the smoke on the engines, from the "cartridge starts" it takes over an hour to start up a B-52 bomber, but a method called "cartridge starts" or "cart-starts" can reduce the startup time to under 10 minutes.

[Larry Conger 🇺🇸 @eMTBrides]

Seann William Scott shares the INCREDIBLE & hilarious backstory to the “Old School” scene where Will Ferrell gets hit with a tranquilizer dart. Sean William Scott has 2 of the funniest scenes in cinema history. This one and massage the prostate in Road Trip 🤣 The stiff myster 😂😂

[doomer @uncledoomer]

men literally just want one thing

[R͓̽Y͓̽a͓̽n͓̽C͓̽e͓̽y͓̽ @RyanceyReturns]

This pilot stares at the horizon when the warning tone hits.

Sharp. Urgent. Wrong.

His F-16 Fighting Falcon jolts as the missile finds him—impact ripping through the airframe. The engine coughs… then dies. Silence replaces the roar.

Fuel starts pouring out behind him.

Then the fire.

Flames crawl up from the tail as the jet turns into dead weight in his hands. Iraq below. Border miles away. No thrust. No options.

He’s not flying anymore… he’s falling.

Every instinct says fight it—glide, hold it together, stretch every second. But the numbers don’t lie. He’s not going to make it.

A breath. A decision.

Handle pulled.

Canopy detonates. The seat rockets him into open sky—violent, blinding—

Then silence.

Parachute blooms.

He’s alive.

But he’s drifting down into enemy territory…

What happens when he lands?

[Christian Ruf @pinpulleddrmf]

The 30mm is so powerful that keeping the camera straight is harder than the flying itself

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Sylvain Pasini competing in the 2025 F3P World Championships of radio-controlled indoor aerobatic model aircraft.

[Latest in Cosmos @latestincosmos]

This is Mars!

140 million miles away from us!

[Handleit Grips @handleitgrips]

You’re a legend 🔥

🎥 RanieroTesta

[𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗰 ✨🎵 @Hoang_HQ]

Fruit 🍌 🍏 🥝 plate for BIG DAWG! 🦌😍

[Tooth Chipper @Tooth_Chipper]

Into my veins

[Mr. Wholebean @footballguy82]

This is why Mattress Mack is a legend in Houston. He has done so much for every community. Just old and having fun. And no it's not A.I. Come on Mack? 😅

[NRM84 @Mappy6984]

This is amazing

[MERICA MEMED @Mericamemed]

plane with gun? ❌
gun with wings? ✅