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Posted: 1/2/2024 7:52:09 PM EST
[#1]
Viper
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Posted: 1/2/2024 7:53:15 PM EST
[#2]
Quote HistoryQuoted: If it's not a fighter, why did it have a stick, j-79s, ejection seats, and the trainer was an f-104? I used to know a guy who had flown against Italian F-104s. Anyway he was such a bad storyteller that I couldn't tell what happened in that story. All I know is that it ended with a couple of F-104 pilots in a briefing room saying, "that guy is dangerously insane." |
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Posted: 1/2/2024 7:53:47 PM EST
[#3]
F-22 Raptor
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Posted: 1/2/2024 7:58:08 PM EST
[#4]
Quote HistoryQuoted: My grandfather was a gunner on an A-20 Havoc with the 85th Bomb Squadron in WW2 at Kasserine Pass, and the invasions of Sicily, Italy, and Southern France. I would have to modernize things and go with the A-10 though. I went Army (where glasses don't automatically make you a second class citizen) instead of Air Force. My Dad was the rear turret gunner on an A-20G with the 410th Bomb Group, 645th Squadron, D-Day thru to the end. |
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Posted: 1/2/2024 7:58:28 PM EST
[#5]
Guy is probably a hippie and needs a hair cut, but does an interesting series on the century fighters.
 One-of-a-kind fighter plane? | Curator on the Loose! |
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Posted: 1/2/2024 7:59:31 PM EST
[#6]
F-8 Crusader.
 And I say this as a guy with some backseat hours in the Eagle. |
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Posted: 1/2/2024 7:59:38 PM EST
[#7]
Quote HistoryQuoted: F-86E Sabre, Korean War. That's one of the coolest looking jets, ever. Same here. My favorite jet fighter. |
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Posted: 1/2/2024 8:01:31 PM EST
[#8]
I’ll fly anything, any time and enjoy the hell out of it.
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Posted: 1/2/2024 8:01:39 PM EST
[#9]
When I got out of the Army in 89', I started going to college. Wasn't really sure what I wanted to do just yet. One day while walking to class I wound up in the building that had the Aviation classes. I see this poster on the wall advertising for Navy pilot jobs. Now up until this point everything I'd ever heard indicated you needed perfect vision to fly in the military. That Navy poster said they'd take you with vision as bad as 20/50. Mine was around 20/25 at the time. I became an Aviation major at that point. Started flying as well. Spent the next 2 years getting 300 hours or so and a Commercial pilot's certificate, and another two years getting a degree. Talked to the Navy multiple times, but it never happened. Drawdowns in the 90s limited pilot slots and the only thing they were offering (at least me) was the guy in the back job. I only wanted to fly. And I really only wanted to fly the F-14. Distant second choice F-18.
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Posted: 1/2/2024 8:01:58 PM EST
[#10]
I was a maintenance guy in an F-14 squadron, and our pilots were sharp as hell. I consider myself above-average technically, but these guys were cut from another cloth. Smart, sharp, and on point. No freaking way would I try to fly one of those things, I know my boundaries. Some were dicks, but looking back, they justified it. Not to the Hollywood extreme, but some humans just have it and the 99.9% of the rest don't.
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Posted: 1/2/2024 8:02:06 PM EST
[#11]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Outlaw, I think you are drunk. Dude. There's only one right seat in the F-4G, and that's the front seat. The other seat is the wrong seat. |
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Posted: 1/2/2024 8:04:30 PM EST
[#12]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I didn't know that. So many smart people on this forum with a vast amount diverse knowledge. The B-58 capsules were designed by Stanley Aviation . The three crew were isolated from each other in flight. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_crew_capsule Stanley ( now Eaton) in CO has a complete capsule in their offices. The only thing missing is the 1911 sidearm. Did you fly out of England at all, say mid 1990s? @Sparkvark |
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Posted: 1/2/2024 8:05:39 PM EST
[#13]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Dude. There's only one right seat in the F-4G, and that's the front seat. The other seat is the wrong seat. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Outlaw, I think you are drunk. Dude. There's only one right seat in the F-4G, and that's the front seat. The other seat is the wrong seat. Unless the pilot gets jumpy and departs, then the guy in the back is the one left. |
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Posted: 1/2/2024 8:09:33 PM EST
[#14]
F-86 Sabre to chase down Lee Majors and that Meatballs kid.
EV EV EV EV |
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Posted: 1/2/2024 8:12:32 PM EST
[#15]
1. X-15
2. SR-71 3. A-10 4. Since it has to be a fighter the F-22 |
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Posted: 1/2/2024 8:13:06 PM EST
[#16]
F105...Wild Weasel. Viet fucking nam.
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Posted: 1/2/2024 8:13:16 PM EST
[#17]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I’ll fly anything, any time and enjoy the hell out of it. Im the same. Best I managed was my Cessna 150 and some rented 152s and a piper archer. But i was pretty much blind as a bat with 20/400 uncorrected before I got Lasik around 1999 - at something like 33 So many to pick from. Not a fighter but an attack/lt bomber, but loked like a fighter, and nobody picked it so far. So I will say the A-4 Skyhawk. Pre humpback versions. |
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Posted: 1/2/2024 8:15:32 PM EST
[#18]
WWII Naval Aviator in a Corsair.
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Posted: 1/2/2024 8:17:38 PM EST
[#19]
P-38 European Theatre
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Posted: 1/2/2024 8:18:28 PM EST
[#20]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Unless the pilot gets jumpy and departs, then the guy in the back is the one left. |
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Posted: 1/2/2024 8:19:20 PM EST
[#21]
I would be killed instantly.
I tried to fly a Goshawk. It was ugly. Props to the guys who can!  I tried many times to do a carrier landing………it was uglier! I had some training. 
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Posted: 1/2/2024 8:19:28 PM EST
[#22]
P38 pilot over new guinea in the spring of 43
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Posted: 1/2/2024 8:21:46 PM EST
[#23]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Im the same. Best I managed was my Cessna 150 and some rented 152s and a piper archer. But i was pretty much blind as a bat with 20/400 uncorrected before I got Lasik around 1999 - at something like 33 So many to pick from. Not a fighter but an attack/lt bomber, but loked like a fighter, and nobody picked it so far. So I will say the A-4 Skyhawk. Pre humpback versions. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I’ll fly anything, any time and enjoy the hell out of it. Im the same. Best I managed was my Cessna 150 and some rented 152s and a piper archer. But i was pretty much blind as a bat with 20/400 uncorrected before I got Lasik around 1999 - at something like 33 So many to pick from. Not a fighter but an attack/lt bomber, but loked like a fighter, and nobody picked it so far. So I will say the A-4 Skyhawk. Pre humpback versions. |
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Posted: 1/2/2024 8:22:18 PM EST
[#24]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I bet you drive a truck, don'chu?  as a matter of fact... yes I do 
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Posted: 1/2/2024 8:22:56 PM EST
[#25]
Ignoring the heinous fact of fighting for the nazi's...
Me-262 I can only imagine what those first pilots to fly it thought of the performance advantage it gave them back then, it must've been amazing! Plus that plane was sexy as hell. Still is. |
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Posted: 1/2/2024 8:30:08 PM EST
[#26]
F-35.
Why not fly the latest and greatest? |
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Posted: 1/2/2024 8:30:59 PM EST
[#27]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Spitfire He said that the Spitfire was designed in a few months from scratch around a massive engine, and that the engine was so powerful he couldn't go full power on it because the torque would cause the fuselage to spin in the opposite direction of the prop. He also said it was a beast of a fighter. He had to have been in his late 80s/early 90s when I met him, but he wore no glasses and his eyes lit up like it was yesterday when telling me the story. |
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Posted: 1/2/2024 8:32:34 PM EST
[#28]
Mention of the A-10 and cockpit capsules jogged a memory.
Desert Storm had kicked off and one of the local librarians was really into watching the footage. Little ole grey haired librarian. Talking to her, her eyes lit up talking about the A-10s. She explained in her younger years she helped machine the titanium "bathtub" the pilots sit in. She was a little disappointed it never got to kill Russians, but was proud to see it put to good use. Man, I bet she has passed away by now. |
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Posted: 1/2/2024 8:35:10 PM EST
[#29]
Quote HistoryQuoted: A10 This one ^^ A10 all the way. kwg |
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Posted: 1/2/2024 8:37:11 PM EST
[#30]
Quote HistoryQuoted: FW190.  Dora 
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Posted: 1/2/2024 8:41:46 PM EST
[#31]
When I was a young kid I used to have dreams I was dog fighting in a biplane. So I had a fascination with them, and when I saw a Fokker D7 at an air museum I told my mom, "That was the plane I flew when I died."
So, Fokker D7 for me. |
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Posted: 1/2/2024 8:42:33 PM EST
[#32]
Eagle
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Posted: 1/2/2024 8:43:12 PM EST
[#33]
Quote HistoryQuoted: The entire cockpit capsule ejected in the Vark. As long as you didn't have a large sink rate in the pattern you were always in the ejection envelope. It had a huge chute and lots of airbags for both land and flotation bags for a water landing. Wasn't it a backbreaker when it landed on ground, or was that resolved? |
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Posted: 1/2/2024 8:43:36 PM EST
[#34]
Quote HistoryQuoted: F-35. Why not fly the latest and greatest? Regardless, it seems we choose Bugattis and Porsches and most of these others are going with Packards and BelAirs and shit. I don't get it. |
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Posted: 1/2/2024 8:44:34 PM EST
[#35]
F-15.
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Posted: 1/2/2024 8:46:09 PM EST
[#36]
Not really a fighter, but it did score some Mig kills.
 Attached File Flight of the Intruder (1991) U.S. Air Force A-1 Skyraiders HD Sandy Air Strike |
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Posted: 1/2/2024 8:47:14 PM EST
[#37]
F-16
My favorite bird from when I was tiny until current day. |
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Posted: 1/2/2024 8:50:51 PM EST
[#38]
 Nice forward view. 
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Posted: 1/2/2024 8:52:36 PM EST
[#39]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Not really a fighter, but it did score some Mig kills. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/6163/Skyraider_jpg-3079982.JPG  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzEO-9LVSskYou are fucked if that is buzzing you. |
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Posted: 1/2/2024 8:57:06 PM EST
[#40]
Quote HistoryLegit. Good call. |
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Posted: 1/2/2024 9:00:26 PM EST
[#41]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Wasn't it a backbreaker when it landed on ground, or was that resolved? I knew several guys who had to eject. They had sore backs but we're back on flight status in a few weeks |
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Posted: 1/2/2024 9:00:43 PM EST
[#42]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Dude. There's only one right seat in the F-4G, and that's the front seat. The other seat is the wrong seat. Maybe. But, I never heard that even once. |
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Posted: 1/2/2024 9:09:37 PM EST
[#43]
A10, GWOT glory days
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Posted: 1/2/2024 9:10:29 PM EST
[#44]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Maybe. But, I never heard that even once. |
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Posted: 1/2/2024 9:11:11 PM EST
[#45]
Quote HistoryQuoted: That's my viewpoint, though I chose F22. Regardless, it seems we choose Bugattis and Porsches and most of these others are going with Packards and BelAirs and shit. I don't get it. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: F-35. Why not fly the latest and greatest? Regardless, it seems we choose Bugattis and Porsches and most of these others are going with Packards and BelAirs and shit. I don't get it. I recall that feeling one time sitting in the back of an F4G doing hot refueling on a totally black asphalt pad on a remote field in Egypt. Recall Libya was rearing its head in the late 1980s. And down the way were some f-15s with their canopies down. Their air conditioners going. Doppler radar ready to go. Front aspect heaters all ready. It dawned on me. We were the guys with the canopies up because we had no AC. Our flight suits were soaking wet with sweat. We had Aim 7 radar missiles and old school tracking radar. And we were going in first. We were the dudes with the J-79s maxed out and leading the pack, and coming home last. The Eagles were playing video games talking to AWACS while we were using paper maps to get where the action was going to be. So, it is cool to fly the latest digi-jet. But don't forget how you got there. |
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Posted: 1/2/2024 9:17:22 PM EST
[#46]
Not a fighter, but an A-6.
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Posted: 1/2/2024 9:19:08 PM EST
[#47]
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Posted: 1/2/2024 9:19:57 PM EST
[#48]
P-61 Black Widow
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Posted: 1/2/2024 9:20:06 PM EST
[#49]
 F18. Now.
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Posted: 1/2/2024 9:21:49 PM EST
[#50]
Quote HistoryQuoted: P-61 Black Widow |
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