09/15/2006. Remarks by Jack McKillop: "Fairchild Republic built two YA-10 prototypes and six YA-10 pre-production aircraft and then built 707 A-10As. They were all single-seat aircraft; the only two-seater ever built was the YA-10B, converted from the first pre-production YA-10A, 73-1664.
In order to improve the A-10A, Fairchild Republic proposed a prototype of a two-seat Night/Adverse Weather version and the proposal was approved by the Air Force. 73-1664 was returned to the old Republic plant at Farmingdale, Long Island, New York, USA, and modified to include a second seat and night-vision avionics.
First flight was made from Edwards AFB, Muroc, California, USA on May 4, 1979, but funding for the A-10B was not provided by the Congress and after modifying this one aircraft, the project (also known as N/AW A-10) was dropped. The YA-10B is on display at the Air Force Flight Test Center (AFFTC) Museum at Edwards AFB. View also photo 2801."
This aircraft NEVER left the Edwards AFB area of operations but somehow VL claims he flew it and others multiple times out of Patrick AFB in Florida as a civilian college student. Looking forward to more BS, maybe he/she/it will enlighten us about being an astronut on the ISS or being on the last Space Shuttle mission...
I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you.
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