{"id":3225,"date":"2011-02-22T15:49:46","date_gmt":"2011-02-22T23:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/?p=3225"},"modified":"2011-02-22T15:49:46","modified_gmt":"2011-02-22T23:49:46","slug":"a-10c-warthog-fires-up-its-lovely-lovely-engines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2011\/02\/22\/a-10c-warthog-fires-up-its-lovely-lovely-engines\/","title":{"rendered":"A-10C Warthog fires up its lovely lovely engines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"fancybox\" rel=\"3225\" href=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/DCS_A-10.jpg\"<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/DCS_A-10.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"DCS_A-10\" width=\"600\" height=\"439\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/DCS_A-10.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/DCS_A-10-300x219.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Look at that.  Beautiful!  Not necessarily the graphics engine, but the actual airplane.  There&#8217;s nothing quite like the Warthog, a close support aircraft made for the unglamorous job of kicking up dirt.  Anyone can makes a sleek jet with the sexy spaceship lines of an F-16 or F-22.  Whatever.  Give me the unique ungainly aesthetic of that big-nacelled beauty any day.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a screenshot from A-10C Warthog, a flight sim released as part of Eagle Dynamics&#8217; Digital Combat Series, which previously featured the the Russian Ka-50 Black Shark helicopter.  Before that, Eagle was known for their Su-27 sims published by SSI, which were a paean to Russia&#8217;s versatile Su-27 fighter\/bomber.  In those games I simultaneously felt like I was in over my head, but in good hands.  Eagle Dynamics made sophisticated, measured, detailed flight sims with long shallow learning curves doled out over a series of missions, and a scenario editor that meant lots of user-made missions.  I couldn&#8217;t be happier that they&#8217;re still hard at work.<\/p>\n<p>A-10C Warthog is out today.  Read more about it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalcombatsimulator.com\/en\/series\/warthog\/\">here<\/a> and buy it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalcombatsimulator.com\/index.php?end_pos=1322&#038;scr=shop&#038;lang=en\">here<\/a> for $60.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A-10C Warthog fires up its lovely lovely engines - Quarter to Three<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2011\/02\/22\/a-10c-warthog-fires-up-its-lovely-lovely-engines\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A-10C Warthog fires up its lovely lovely engines - 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