GAU-8 meets VW type1

[Atreides 144]

Just happened to stumble on this wikipic on some forum, made me chuckle.

 

[DWCAce 19]

It's a classic

[Derk 265]

It's a peacefull meeting.....Two more meetings: at the start of the KLu 75 year anniversary air show at Deelen in 1988, they would not begin the show unless all the public was behind the fence along the display runway. As it turned out an old VW Beetle was parked far in front of the fence with an lone "spectator" in a chair right beside it. He would NOT leave despite all sorts of warnings. In the end a big German CH 53 turned up (was it you Volker?) and some heavily armed military police. The spectator resisted and was removed by a lot of force. The car was taken up in a sling by the helicopter and then dropped from about 500ft at the other side of the runway......... Great fun !! The Beetle "lost "the first meeting (with the heli) but was still in one piece.

An hour or so later during the show a couple of T6's (Harvards) dressed up as Thunderbolts and FW 190's (for the movies "A Bridge too Far" and "Soldier of Orange") and equiped with makeshift - but working -bomb racks, using empty cylinders of fire extinguisers as bombs, did a demo in which they dive bombed the car. Without any sort of bomb aiming equipment an old ex KLu pilot put his "bomb " right through the rear window (that was miraculouly still intact) of the Beetle . Bullseye !! Beetle lost the second meeting too but was still recognisable as a Beetle...... The 400.000 (!) spectators had an experience never to forget...

Wonder how a not so peacefull meeting between the GAU 8 would end......

 

Hou doe,

 

Derk

Edited November 2, 2010 by Derk

[TX3RN0BILL 3]

If the GAU-8 has the force to slow the forward momentum of the 'hog in flight during an extended firing run, I wonder how fast a Beetle could go with the GAU-8 mounted facing backwards and firing away? 

[Derk 265]

If the GAU-8 has the force to slow the forward momentum of the 'hog in flight during an extended firing run, I wonder how fast a Beetle could go with the GAU-8 mounted facing backwards and firing away? , with cops in hot pursuit for speeding.......

 

 

Derk

[Nesher 628]

mount one on a VW...