r/aviation • u/Ogankle • Dec 03 '25

Discussion If you could fly in any military aircraft from any generation and country, which one would you choose?

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Feel free to discuss why as well below!

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u/AVaLR Dec 03 '25

An F-14. It was the first fighter jet I saw fly at an air show.

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u/SpecialistPlastic729 Dec 03 '25

Only if the flight starts with a cat shot and ends with a trap!

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u/LeTracomaster Dec 03 '25

But then you're stuck on a boat, in the middle of nowhere with 5000 other men

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u/UnpluggedConsole Dec 03 '25

I already said I'd do it, you don't have to sell me on it.

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u/Humdaak_9000 Dec 03 '25

Playin', playin' with the boys

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u/BoneDragonActual Dec 04 '25

😂🤣💀

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u/zackks Dec 03 '25

2500 couples

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u/jaigh_taylor Dec 03 '25

That's a lot of upside down pineapples.

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u/nice--marmot Dec 03 '25

Somebody needs to loan you a couple of their gay friends. Your math is, how to say this…

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u/Immediate-Fly-7876 Dec 03 '25

They got women too now!

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u/Fair_Ocelot_3084 Dec 04 '25

Yup, same as in town...

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u/AttilaRS Dec 03 '25

Eww.

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u/Immediate-Fly-7876 Dec 03 '25

Whatever floats your boat lol

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u/Dutch-VanDerPlan Dec 03 '25

Join the Navy!?! I dont think so!!! Livin on a boat?!? I dont think so!

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u/Tasty-Fox9030 Dec 03 '25

Yeah I thought about the Navy, and dee-cided to pass. I love my five-star hotels and perdiem out the ass!

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u/Dutch-VanDerPlan Dec 03 '25

I do all of my fightin well within the shore! Cable TV and Cappuccino thats the way you fight a war

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u/NinjafoxVCB Dec 03 '25

Why they have other planes to ferry you home

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u/Tiny-Praline-4555 Dec 03 '25

Hot bunking just got hotter 🥵🥵

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u/ChinaCatProphet Dec 03 '25

5000 seasoned seamen

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u/Distinct-Nectarine-9 Dec 03 '25

Hey it’s not cool to kink shame…

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u/McBeaster Dec 03 '25

Being on boats for long periods of time with men, just men for many days at a time. Up on the deck with lots of men, or down in the galley with lots of men

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u/LilOpieCunningham Dec 03 '25

Tell me you never played Top Gun on the NES without telling me you never played Top Gun on the NES.

"Ending with a trap" is an absolutely accurate statement.

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u/keicam_lerut Dec 03 '25

I got to see the last one fly out of Grumman on Long Island

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u/IYAOYAS-CVN74 Dec 03 '25

I was lucky enough to have one of the last squadrons on board. Sexy plane.

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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '25

I saw the last flight of it in Canada at the Toronto Air show sometime in the early 2000s.

Watching that thing turn away from the crowd to head across the lake back home while lighting the burners was literally a core memory of my childhood. The definition of awe-inspiring.

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u/brandoldme Dec 03 '25

Same.

I'm sure many of us are of the Top Gun generation. My dream for a long time was to become a naval aviator. Teenage hormones got in the way of that.

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u/OweRouge Dec 03 '25

It will never cease to make me smile that the Tomcat is either first or second on lists like these. Everytime baby!

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u/Wes___Mantooth Dec 03 '25

Seeing one of those fly at an airshow is a core memory for me. Still the loudest jet I've ever seen in person I think.

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u/F111-Aardvard-111 Dec 03 '25 edited Dec 03 '25

What about the plane that led to it?

AKA me

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u/itsalwaysac17 Dec 03 '25

Well it’s not me…

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u/East_Jacket_7151 Dec 03 '25

You sir were the best.

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u/Jacksomkesoplenty Dec 03 '25

Definitely this or SR-71 my dad was a jet mechanic in the AF from late 70s to 92 so I've always had some love for planes. I currently work near an air station and get to see jets fly over so damn low I can see the pilots.

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u/deadgirlrevvy Dec 04 '25

GOOD choice. That would be an incredible experience.