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Posted: 11/23/2019 8:48:43 PM EDT

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Having already voted and posted, the following doesn't count, but:

Who else would like to jump in the left seat of a C-130?

Posted: 11/23/2019 8:50:43 PM EDT

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I voted P-51, but only because Blackbird was not on the list.

Posted: 11/23/2019 8:51:36 PM EDT

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Whatever is easiest to land.

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Pffft.
Landin ain't that hard if you have a clue.

Posted: 11/23/2019 9:04:55 PM EDT

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I'm with ya! I'd even ride in the back seat playing WSO instead of fighting for the front seat. Preferably it would be something like 70-238, a jet with the improvements made after Viet Nam lessons but without the crazy digital systems they started installing in the 1971 models. I'd take a vanilla F-4E over a digital Phantom any day.

BTW, from my limited back seat experience, 6Gs in a Phantom was nothing. Those birds regularly came back from training missions with between 12 and 13Gs showing on the G-meter.

I know of one Phantom that came home after a severe over-G that was estimated to have been 15Gs+. It broke the engine mounts and got home with the engines laying on the engine bay doors, held in place by the fuel and hydraulic lines. But it got the crew back home That bird went to the repair depot in pieces on 4 or 5 flatbed trailers, but it flew again.
F-4E #66-300, about as vanilla as an F-4E could get.
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Speaking as someone with over 1500 hours in F-4's, trust me when I say "Horseshit."

To begin with, the G-meter only goes to 10G. It doesn't register beyond that. It pegs there. It can't have "between 12 and 13Gs showing on the G-meter."

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10Gs is enough to break motor mounts, tear off tanks, wrinkle the skin on the hardback, etc. We had a grossly over-G'd airplane come back at George (heavily loaded up as they pulled through another guy's jetwash in BFM, IIRC), and it was leaking fuel all over the ramp, and the hardback behind the rear cockpit was wrinkled like aluminum foil. The idea that airplanes could come back after routinely pulling 12-13Gs is ludicrous.

Posted: 11/23/2019 9:06:01 PM EDT

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Needs more P-38.

Posted: 11/23/2019 9:35:17 PM EDT

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Out of those choices I would like the P-51, F-4 and the F/A-18. I voted P-51 because I would be able to actually fly it with the least amount of training I suppose.

Posted: 11/23/2019 9:39:22 PM EDT

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Posted: 11/23/2019 9:44:49 PM EDT

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P-51 or F-4. Tough choice. But I have to go with the Mustang.

Posted: 11/23/2019 9:54:04 PM EDT

[#9]

F105

Posted: 11/23/2019 10:29:15 PM EDT

[#10]

Red Baron or SR-71 for one trip around the globe.

Posted: 11/24/2019 11:26:36 PM EDT

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THUD

Posted: 11/24/2019 11:29:58 PM EDT

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T1TS

Posted: 11/24/2019 11:37:48 PM EDT

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No blackbird...

> tfw you will never fly a blackbird

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Posted: 11/24/2019 11:56:05 PM EDT

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He 162, made out of metal and a F-5's jet engine. Bubble canopy, not too fast, good rate of climb, tricycle gear. Have to upgrade the brakes though.

Posted: 11/25/2019 12:30:54 AM EDT

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F-104 (dat howl! Pure sex)
SR-71 3+
T-38 Would love to beat up the pattern in one, if i could do it without killing myself
F-15
A-6
A-10

Posted: 11/25/2019 12:53:53 AM EDT

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MiG-21.

Posted: 11/25/2019 12:34:16 PM EDT

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He 162, made out of metal and a F-5's jet engine. Bubble canopy, not too fast, good rate of climb, tricycle gear. Have to upgrade the brakes though.
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My good friend Rudi Naebe (RIP) got drafted into the Luftwaffe at 16 because he had been a member of an HJ glider club. Definitely NOT a Nazi, but enjoyed flying. They had a bunch of young kids at the end of the war assigned to fly the Salamander, and he was one of them. He said the thing was a death trap, but he enjoyed flying it as it was so fast. QC was almost non-existent, and it was made by slave labor. You can guess the results.

Rudi said he much prefered the Storch, and had a replica he flew when he lived in Oshkosh before he passed away from colon cancer. One of the best bartenders I ever knew, a good man, who suffered a lot because of his association with the Luftwaffe. As if he had a choice. At least he survived the Salamander.

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