SIMPLE FLYING · DEFENSE
THE A-10 FLEW ITS FINAL SORTIE FROM THE BASE THAT TRAINED ITS PILOTS...
After fifty years of Warthog instruction, the last students have flown the type from the field that made its pilots.
SCOTT: Types leave the inventory the same way they arrived — one last student, one last crew. Worth remembering the next time someone says a mission airplane is “too ugly to kill.”