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Posted: 7/26/2017 1:52:05 PM EST

[#1]

B-52 Stratofortress

Posted: 7/26/2017 1:52:30 PM EST

[#2]

P-51D Mustang and a Spitfire

Easily the sexiest aircraft ever built and that sound. It's Freedom Boner inspiring.

Posted: 7/26/2017 1:56:12 PM EST

[#3]

Super Cub bush plane in Alaska

Posted: 7/26/2017 1:56:40 PM EST

[#4]

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B-17 or B-29

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Did the B-17 last October with my Dad and it was awesome. Tight squeeze and I'm a small guy but it was nothing short of awesome.

Posted: 7/26/2017 1:57:01 PM EST

[#5]

Thuds forever.

Posted: 7/26/2017 1:58:40 PM EST

[#6]

MiG-21.

Posted: 7/26/2017 1:59:23 PM EST

[#7]

Quote History

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Airbus 380
When I fly I want to fly in comfort

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I dig the hell out of the 380, but you want the Dreamliner for that!

Posted: 7/26/2017 1:59:45 PM EST

[#8]

XB-70 Valkyrie

The Cold War had the best stuff

Posted: 7/26/2017 2:02:36 PM EST

[#9]

Northrop P-61 Black Widow.

Posted: 7/26/2017 2:03:38 PM EST

[#10]

Quote History

Quoted:
P-51D Mustang and a Spitfire

Easily the sexiest aircraft ever built and that sound. It's Freedom Boner inspiring.

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I LOVE the P51D and Spitfire (and Corsair). But c'mon... how do you out-sexy an SR-71? Nothing that's ever taken flight has out-sexied that thing. It had curves, angles, AND ludicrous SPEED.

Posted: 7/26/2017 2:04:06 PM EST

[#11]

Attached File

Posted: 7/26/2017 2:05:38 PM EST

[#12]

Su27

Posted: 7/26/2017 2:05:41 PM EST

[#13]

Spitfire.

Posted: 7/26/2017 2:07:03 PM EST

[#14]

P47 attacking trains and straffing runways in late 1947

B29 dropping A bomb on Hiroshima

A1D Skyraider doing close air support for Marines in 'Nam

F16 hitting Scud sights Iraq

Apache doing CAS in Afghanistan

P38 Lightning shooting down Yamamoto in the Pacific

F4U Corsair with the Black Sheep

P51 doing bomber escort and tangling with ME109's

Posted: 7/26/2017 2:08:18 PM EST

[#15]

Some of the planes my dad worked on would be neat.

F-100
B-66
F-4
T-38
F-111

Posted: 7/26/2017 2:09:35 PM EST

[#16]

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Northrop P-61 Black Widow.

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Me too. I always just thought they were the most badass plane of a badass plane era.

Posted: 7/26/2017 2:09:53 PM EST

[#17]

I also think that flying an A-10 and shooting the shit out of the bad guys' tanks and trains would be fun.

Posted: 7/26/2017 2:10:27 PM EST

[#18]

Pan Am Clipper across the Pacific.

Posted: 7/26/2017 2:11:15 PM EST

[#19]

OP and FPNI.

Posted: 7/26/2017 2:11:32 PM EST

[#20]

All of the above but mostly the Space Shuttle.

Posted: 7/26/2017 2:11:39 PM EST

[#21]

My grandfather flew in a B26 during the war, would be cool to experience it

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Posted: 7/26/2017 2:11:43 PM EST

[#22]

Yellow Stearman PT-17.

Posted: 7/26/2017 2:13:31 PM EST

[#23]

The list is long, but my top two would be the X-15 and the B-17G.

Posted: 7/26/2017 2:16:30 PM EST

[#24]

LOL

Posted: 7/26/2017 2:18:55 PM EST

[#25]

Attached File

Posted: 7/26/2017 2:19:22 PM EST

[#26]

SR-71

Posted: 7/26/2017 2:26:21 PM EST

[#27]

F4U Corsair

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Posted: 7/26/2017 2:28:08 PM EST

[#28]

Fly it or get paid to fly it?

Posted: 7/26/2017 2:29:11 PM EST

[#29]

BF109 E or G

Flying Bf 109 G-4 Red 7 / Biggin Hill / Festival of Flight 2015 / WOW!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGhMGQst4lo

Posted: 7/26/2017 2:29:47 PM EST

[#30]

SR-71
P-38
MI-24 maybe.

Posted: 7/26/2017 2:30:06 PM EST

[#31]

F-22
F-15
F/A-18 E/F
F-16
P-51
Spitfire
P-40

Posted: 7/26/2017 2:35:17 PM EST

[#32]

On this planet, an A-10.

Posted: 7/26/2017 2:35:56 PM EST

[#33]

Curtiss Jenny dammit all!

Posted: 7/26/2017 2:37:05 PM EST

[#34]

Super Constellation or the TU-95 Bear

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Posted: 7/26/2017 2:38:20 PM EST

[#35]

Posted: 7/26/2017 2:42:06 PM EST

[#36]

SR71
F35
F22
F117
A10
B2
Harrier
B1

Posted: 7/26/2017 2:43:00 PM EST

[#37]

All of them

Posted: 7/26/2017 2:43:39 PM EST

[#38]

F16

They got that shit right over 40 years ago.

Posted: 7/26/2017 2:44:02 PM EST

[#39]

Quote History

Quoted:
https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/35314/SR-71A-head-on-NASA-Dryden-1995-263543.JPG

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Posted: 7/26/2017 2:44:38 PM EST

[#40]

P-47 Thunderbolt
8 - 50cal guns, recoil when fired reduced the speed by some 30mph.
Predecessor to the A10.
Very tough, could take a lot of punishment. But unforgiving a bit to fly.

Posted: 7/26/2017 2:46:33 PM EST

[#41]

Checked off Citation X and 787 last couple of weeks so that's been nice

Posted: 7/26/2017 2:49:39 PM EST

[#42]

P-38
SR-71
F-4
F-14
Sopwith camel

Posted: 7/26/2017 2:53:33 PM EST

[#43]

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Checked off Citation X and 787 last couple of weeks so that's been nice

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What was the occasion for the CX flight? Long time buddy has captained Excels and Ultras for Netjets for a couple of decades. I asked him why he didn't want to fly the "cool/fast stuff" like the X, G550, etc and he said that he just doesn't want to give up his seniority in the straight wing Citations. Plus, he's nearly always in the States (outside of an occasional trip to Cabo).

Posted: 7/26/2017 3:01:38 PM EST

[#44]

Need more than one guess?

Posted: 7/26/2017 3:07:23 PM EST

[#45]

A man's got to know his limitations

Posted: 7/26/2017 3:12:25 PM EST

[#46]

Quote History

Quoted:
Super Constellation or the TU-95 Bear

https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/388661/IMG-3178-263552.JPG

https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/388661/IMG-3179-263553.JPG

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I'm friends with one of the pilots of the TWA Connie. He got hired by TWA at age 21 and was assigned the Connie FO position since he was TOO YOUNG to hold an FE ticket. Bastard!

Awesome guy who knows more about aviation than the entire Purdue Faculty--seriously. The guy's a genius.

TC

P.S.--My picks would be the F-4 for fun and the G650 for profit.

Posted: 7/26/2017 3:12:55 PM EST

[#47]

Quoted:
Mine would probably be the Lockheed U-2. The SR-71 Blackbird would be a close second.

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Mustang, P-38, Seafire mk 47, Sr-71

Posted: 7/26/2017 3:22:13 PM EST

[#48]

Realistic choice:
Grumman TBM Avenger, rear gunner.

Posted: 7/26/2017 3:25:35 PM EST

[#49]

Still patiently waiting for my own VF-1 Valkyrie

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Posted: 7/26/2017 3:27:56 PM EST

[#50]

Quote History

Quoted:
P-51D
A-10 Warthog
F16 Strike eagle

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Make up your mind. Do you want to ride in an F-16 OR do you want to ride in a Strike Eagle?

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