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Posted: 1/2/2024 7:19:40 PM EDT

any era

any ONE plane (fighter/interceptor/combat, not the NASA weather jet, ok?)

your choice is?

I SAID "ONE"

Posted: 1/2/2024 7:20:55 PM EDT

[#1]

Eagle

Posted: 1/2/2024 7:21:18 PM EDT

[#2]

WWII in a P-47 D.

Posted: 1/2/2024 7:21:44 PM EDT

[#3]

F-86E Sabre, Korean War.

That's one of the coolest looking jets, ever.

Posted: 1/2/2024 7:21:57 PM EDT

[#4]

WWII / P51 is the answer.

Posted: 1/2/2024 7:22:07 PM EDT

[#5]

FPNI

Posted: 1/2/2024 7:22:24 PM EDT

[#6]

de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito

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Posted: 1/2/2024 7:22:50 PM EDT

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so, you like big JUGS and you cannot lie?

Posted: 1/2/2024 7:23:22 PM EDT

[#8]

BONE

Posted: 1/2/2024 7:23:31 PM EDT

[#9]

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any era

any ONE plane (fighter/interceptor/combat, not the NASA weather jet, ok?)

your choice is?

I SAID "ONE"

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OV-10 Bronco Vietnam 1969 - 1972. Covey, Nail, or Raven FAC.

Posted: 1/2/2024 7:23:53 PM EDT

[#10]

WW2 in a P-38 in the Pacific.

Posted: 1/2/2024 7:24:18 PM EDT

[#11]

There is SO much moar to being a pilot! So much more that I'm glad I didn't go that route!

Posted: 1/2/2024 7:25:28 PM EDT

[#12]

Raptor

Posted: 1/2/2024 7:26:24 PM EDT

[#13]

P-51 Cadillac of the skys.

Posted: 1/2/2024 7:26:33 PM EDT

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this is an airplane thread

Posted: 1/2/2024 7:27:08 PM EDT

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F4U Corsair or P38

Posted: 1/2/2024 7:27:15 PM EDT

[#16]

In my day...Skyraider

Posted: 1/2/2024 7:29:06 PM EDT

[#17]

F-14 Tomcat. Anything else is phaggotry.

Posted: 1/2/2024 7:29:09 PM EDT

[#18]

Spitfire

Posted: 1/2/2024 7:29:20 PM EDT

[#19]

1960s flying the F-106 Delta Dart. Back when being a jet pilot and flying with rockets was cool.

Posted: 1/2/2024 7:29:34 PM EDT

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I bet you drive a truck, don'chu?

Posted: 1/2/2024 7:29:34 PM EDT

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My blood pressure is so low that feel like I’m going to pass out every time I stand up to fast… So maybe until I put it into a punishing 1.5G turn. Then I’d fucking die.

But if I could? Corsair.

Posted: 1/2/2024 7:29:36 PM EDT

[#22]

F-15 Eagle. Just because it is still one bad bird even after all these years.

Bigger_Hammer

Posted: 1/2/2024 7:29:58 PM EDT

[#23]

I wouldn't be. Distinguished flying crosses do not compensate for losses.

Give Me Operations

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWfdUhe784Y

Posted: 1/2/2024 7:30:36 PM EDT

[#24]

Whatever has the comfiest seats.

Posted: 1/2/2024 7:30:40 PM EDT

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so, you like big JUGS and you cannot lie?

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Oddly enough my MIL made a documentary about Dick Brannan who turned around Ford's drag racing record.

Lively One Trailer 10 30 2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyhpCvVuKwE

Posted: 1/2/2024 7:31:07 PM EDT

[#26]

F16, because it is the best fighter of all time.

Posted: 1/2/2024 7:31:08 PM EDT

[#27]

P-38 J.

Posted: 1/2/2024 7:31:56 PM EDT

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Damn Straight

Posted: 1/2/2024 7:31:58 PM EDT

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Posted: 1/2/2024 7:32:41 PM EDT

[#30]

Always loved German warplanes so probably a Bf109 dogfighting and shooting down Yaks over the Eastern front. Shit... actually that's too cold so a maybe a P40 shooting down zeros over the Pacific theatre would be better.

Posted: 1/2/2024 7:32:51 PM EDT

[#31]

Viper, Desert Storm.

Posted: 1/2/2024 7:32:55 PM EDT

[#32]

eagle.

Posted: 1/2/2024 7:33:28 PM EDT

[#33]

When I was 9, my friend's father let me sit in the cockpit of his P-38 while it was being worked on in the hangar.

I've been dreaming about flying one ever since.

Posted: 1/2/2024 7:34:00 PM EDT

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I'll let you tell him

Posted: 1/2/2024 7:34:06 PM EDT

[#35]

WW2, Spitfire.

Posted: 1/2/2024 7:34:30 PM EDT

[#36]

Gf was a Viper pilot. Speaks pretty highly of it.

Nothing to obstruct your view. No nose, can’t really see the wings. Just an extension of your conscience. Wherever you want to go you go.

I’d have passed out at 5Gs

Posted: 1/2/2024 7:34:32 PM EDT

[#37]

Aeronca champ, hand dropping bombs out the window sinking German U boats off the coast of Florida with civil air patrol.

Then banging girls on the beach between flights.

Posted: 1/2/2024 7:34:36 PM EDT

[#38]

No love for the Phantom here? I'm sad.

Posted: 1/2/2024 7:35:55 PM EDT

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F-4G is my #2 after the Viper.

Posted: 1/2/2024 7:36:03 PM EDT

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My late uncle worked his entire adult life for Vought and helped design that airplane. It hauled the mail. Not supersonic, but quite the load.

Posted: 1/2/2024 7:36:37 PM EDT

[#41]

F-22.

For the engines and flight control system. Watching one of them do a demo is like nothing I've ever seen. First time I saw one in flight it was doing a minimum radius turn at 200 feet above my head.

Posted: 1/2/2024 7:36:57 PM EDT

[#42]

FW190.

Posted: 1/2/2024 7:37:10 PM EDT

[#43]

A10

Posted: 1/2/2024 7:37:36 PM EDT

[#44]

B-58 Hustler.

Handled like an F-102. Nothing faster. Brings the crowd pleaser.

Posted: 1/2/2024 7:37:42 PM EDT

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that's a true boomer fantasy right there