Warthog in low-level flight

Thunderbolt & lightning, very, very frightening
London, ON
September 2018
This photo originally shared on Instagram

The best tool for any job isn't necessarily the prettiest. It's usually found in a dusty corner, scratched, scraped and banged up from hard, honest use, hardly something you'd put on a pedestal.

But pretty doesn't save lives when the enemy is metres away. Pretty doesn't return its pilots home with chunks torn out of the airframe. Pretty doesn't instill fear and respect by simply showing up. Indeed, I think pretty needs a new definition, because every time I see an A-10, I think this is what pretty, in an aviation sense, needs to be.