What is it like to fly a Jet Fighter?
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Much quieter than you'd expect!
And there is no real way to express the feeling of acceleration you experience the first time you firewall the throttle in your first fast-jet!
After that it all goes a bit fast and gets very difficult!
And there is no real way to express the feeling of acceleration you experience the first time you firewall the throttle in your first fast-jet!
After that it all goes a bit fast and gets very difficult!
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Can anyone with experience give me a insight into what its like to fly a Fighter Jet?
Odd, that...
That's easy...
The best way I can describe it is like trying to jam a schizophrenic mountain goat into a paper mache shopping trolley without breaking it (the trolley, not the goat) with a live armadillo shoved down your pants, and an irate honey badger kicking at your guts.
Whilst you're on fire.
With a case of hemorrhoids.
(Actually a lot more fun than it sounds, but then, I'm a masochist)
Whilst you're on fire.
With a case of hemorrhoids.
(Actually a lot more fun than it sounds, but then, I'm a masochist)
FlareAngel did write 'Fighter Jet', Pontious.... And real fighter jets only have one seat...
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FlareAngel, it is nothing like 'Top Gun'. But, from my brief time some 20+ years ago, I can confirm that it was utterly great. Nothing else (in an aircraft!) comes close.
'Happiness is Hunter-shaped' - always was, always will be!
!FlareAngel, it is nothing like 'Top Gun'. But, from my brief time some 20+ years ago, I can confirm that it was utterly great. Nothing else (in an aircraft!) comes close.
'Happiness is Hunter-shaped' - always was, always will be!
Find out for yourself! Some of us will only ever be onlookers. Don't be like us - don't watch this and wish that you'd made something better of your life:
YouTube - 4 Ship Eurofighter
YouTube - 4 Ship Eurofighter
I don't own this space under my name. I should have leased it while I still could
BEagle:
Meteor, Javelin, Sea Vixen.
At least in the latter the O was in front IIRC.
Meteor, Javelin, Sea Vixen.
At least in the latter the O was in front IIRC.
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But then after the initial thrill has worn off, as all thrills must, you will find yourself in the dark hours of the soul questioning yourself.
Is it really more fun than flying a chinook/apache/seaking/Lynx at 5ft around afghanistan? I mean, really?
What must it be like to have a really useful role?
Do I really look as stupid in a pink flying suit in the DFAC as I believe?
Is it really more fun than flying a chinook/apache/seaking/Lynx at 5ft around afghanistan? I mean, really?
What must it be like to have a really useful role?
Do I really look as stupid in a pink flying suit in the DFAC as I believe?
At least in the latter the O was in front IIRC.
I don't own this space under my name. I should have leased it while I still could
What did they call the Os in the back of the Gannet?
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Flare Angel, I was all of eighteen when I turned up on squadron, there was a bloody great airplane with my name under the canopy rail, I thought I had died and gone to heaven! At no time flying this thing did I ever change this view, this in spite of what these days would be considered a mortality rate which would have the Air Force shut down, regretfully the military changed over time into a very underfunded "Old Boys Club", staffed by RMC grads, was time to move on, one thing I find still to this day, the friendships made during this youthfull part of our lives endure ,give it a try, you will not regret it! As I type this, above the screen is a picture of four of us half way round a loop, few in this world get to do such things, {and get paid to do it!}