[ARC5] A10 Warthog

[Mkdorney]

It smoked because their GE jet engines were not the most fuel efficient. The “smoke” was unburnt JP-4. When afterburners were lit, this fuel was ignited. 

Mark
WW2RDO

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> On Jul 4, 2018, at 1:59 PM, Kenneth G. Gordon <kgordon2006 at frontier.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 3 Jul 2018 at 18:13, jeepp wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Jack and others,
>> The Six was an outstanding aircraft.  The B model being slightly faster than the single-seat A 
>> model.  The two types of AA missles and the AIR-2A special weapon did (could) do the job.  At 
>> Langley in the 70's, they put a gun pod on several airframes and they turned out to be truly good 
>> at ACM.  As I recall, they fought against  F-4's and came out on top half the time.  No smoke, 
>> either...
> 
> As I understand it, no one ever figured out why the F-4 smoked.
> 
> Ken W7EKB
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