ah! the A-10 Thunderbolt II (aka Warthog) : one of the safest, most-reliable combat aircraft ever built.
But dang it! the girl wasn’t hit with the ugly stick, she was the ugly stick’s momma!
It isn’t pretty like a fighter, but it does have a beauty all its own.
Like they say, beauty is only skin deep. The Warthog is all business through and through. Watching it perform turns it into a thing of beauty and those who have come back in what looked like total wrecks must truly love the beast.