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Posted: 5/10/2020 5:28:06 PM EDT
[#1]
Inverted us extra, you got Cher money?
Edit, sorry tech. |
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Posted: 5/10/2020 5:49:22 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 13starsinax: Inverted us extra, you got Cher money? Edit, sorry tech. I dont understand 
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Posted: 5/10/2020 5:59:03 PM EDT
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Quoted: How much would it cost to go in a fighter jet ? If we get our Living History Letter back the one time flight in the F-4 Phantom is 15,000.00. The A4 is 8000.00. If you were a rated pilot we could do it tomorrow, same price. |
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Posted: 5/10/2020 6:08:52 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By RickH11: If we get our Living History Letter back the one time flight in the F-4 Phantom is 15,000.00. The A4 is 8000.00. If you were a rated pilot we could do it tomorrow, same price. Where can i find more information on where i could do this? Thanks |
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Posted: 5/10/2020 6:39:22 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Mmamonster: Where can i find more information on where i could do this? Thanks |
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Posted: 5/10/2020 8:26:15 PM EDT
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Fly a F-104
Or here. Any hour in a P-51 was $4000 a few years ago. You can find anything from an L-39 on up. |
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Posted: 5/10/2020 9:19:54 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryHoly ...... !!! That would be incredible, that plane was legendary. |
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Posted: 5/11/2020 5:13:57 AM EDT
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Thanks all for replying. Going to plan this for next year.
Atb Mart |
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Posted: 5/11/2020 8:47:16 PM EDT
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L39s are fairly cheap to go up in. If you don't have light aircraft or acro experience, your money may very well be wasted and I recommend you get some training in an Extra 300, which can be had for as little as 300-400/hr. You can be the type that never gets sea sick, but if you don't have experience in acrobatic aircraft, you will likely get nauseous and be wasting your money.
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Posted: 5/11/2020 9:44:52 PM EDT
[#10]
Quoted: How much would it cost to go in a fighter jet ? It costs most guys about 10 years of their life. 
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Posted: 5/11/2020 10:27:36 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Kekoa: It costs most guys about 10 years of their life. When you factor in the bad back/neck, liver damage and radiation from the radar, it's probably a few more years than that. Totally worth it! |
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Posted: 5/11/2020 10:36:26 PM EDT
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You will have MORE fun in an extra 300. I promise.
This is me a good number of years ago. You can take a ride or basically fly the plane. In my case, I just had the pilot talk me through all the maneuvers. You will also pull more G's positive and negative in these aircraft than an F16. +- up to 8 G's. Max I did I think was 7 positive and maybe 5 negative (hard to remember). Right up to tunnel vision and red out. Incredible experience.  You can do aerobatics or a fighter combat type sim shoot with another aircraft. https://fightercombat.com/ |
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Posted: 5/11/2020 10:50:02 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Mmamonster: Where can i find more information on where i could do this? Thanks Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Mmamonster: Originally Posted By RickH11: If we get our Living History Letter back the one time flight in the F-4 Phantom is 15,000.00. The A4 is 8000.00. If you were a rated pilot we could do it tomorrow, same price. Where can i find more information on where i could do this? Thanks Closer to home. www.collingsfoundation.org The jets and flights are out of Ellington Field-Houston. |
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Posted: 5/12/2020 5:24:44 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By aeroworksxp: You will have MORE fun in an extra 300. I promise. Acro aircraft are interesting in their own way in terms of how twisted up you can get, but it is an entirely different sensation than the power, acceleration, etc, that one would get in the Collings F-4, for instance. It really more depends on what, exactly, the OP wants to get out of a ride in a "fighter". |
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Posted: 5/12/2020 7:36:37 AM EDT
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I was supposed to have a ride in a P51 this month but Covid killed it.
 To the OP, there are many opportunities to fly in fighter jets if you have the means. If you are interested in something fun and unique, there is (was?) a company in Russia that would take you up in a Mig on a flight to the "edge of space". I'm sure you can find some Youtube vids on it. |
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Posted: 5/12/2020 9:29:03 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By burntcrispy: I was supposed to have a ride in a P51 this month but Covid killed it. To the OP, there are many opportunities to fly in fighter jets if you have the means. If you are interested in something fun and unique, there is (was?) a company in Russia that would take you up in a Mig on a flight to the "edge of space". I'm sure you can find some Youtube vids on it. That's linked in a previous post.......Mig 29 to 72,000 ft. 40-50 minute flight for 17500 euros......bout US$20,000. Not unreasonable for that kind of experience. I forget what it was to go in the Soyuz for a day or two--like $20 million?? |
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Posted: 5/12/2020 9:32:16 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By burntcrispy: I was supposed to have a ride in a P51 this month but Covid killed it. To the OP, there are many opportunities to fly in fighter jets if you have the means. If you are interested in something fun and unique, there is (was?) a company in Russia that would take you up in a Mig on a flight to the "edge of space". I'm sure you can find some Youtube vids on it. I wish I would have done the MiG-25 ride when they were offering it. Always had a thing for that beast. The MiG-31 with Kh-47 ALBM is an interesting weapons system. |
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Posted: 5/12/2020 9:33:49 AM EDT
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High and fast is nowhere near as cool as low and fast.
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Posted: 5/12/2020 10:52:09 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By RagingWhite: High and fast is nowhere near as cool as low and fast. Even more fun doing low, fast, and inverted 
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Posted: 5/12/2020 10:57:50 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By esa17: Fly a F-104 Or here. Any hour in a P-51 was $4000 a few years ago. You can find anything from an L-39 on up. I was working the Big Sky Air Show as a CC with the Mt ANG back around 1989 and the P-51D was giving one hour rides for $400.00! I will forever regret not heading to the ATM. 
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Posted: 5/12/2020 11:00:21 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By aeroworksxp: Even more fun doing low, fast, and inverted Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By aeroworksxp: Originally Posted By RagingWhite: High and fast is nowhere near as cool as low and fast. Even more fun doing low, fast, and inverted At night. What could go wrong? 
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Posted: 5/12/2020 11:00:53 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By aeroworksxp: You will have MORE fun in an extra 300. I promise. This is me a good number of years ago. You can take a ride or basically fly the plane. In my case, I just had the pilot talk me through all the maneuvers. You will also pull more G's positive and negative in these aircraft than an F16. +- up to 8 G's. Max I did I think was 7 positive and maybe 5 negative (hard to remember). Right up to tunnel vision and red out. Incredible experience. https://i.imgur.com/I0bQ42x.gif You can do aerobatics or a fighter combat type sim shoot with another aircraft. https://fightercombat.com/ I had plans to do this at one time. I regret not following through. |
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Posted: 5/12/2020 11:53:17 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By RagingWhite: High and fast is nowhere near as cool as low and fast. To be more correct....neither are as cool as low and slow with an open cockpit. |
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Posted: 5/12/2020 12:09:20 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By MudEagle: To be more correct....neither are as cool as low and slow with an open cockpit. Word! At this point in my life, I'd much rather be out doing this... We just brought her home last week. I'm getting a little refresher with our local expert...a little chilly, but still fun!  Last summer! Only had her out a few times this year, it really needs to warm up! 
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Posted: 5/12/2020 1:38:08 PM EDT
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Quoted: To be more correct....neither are as cool as low and slow with an open cockpit. Quoted: Word! At this point in my life, I'd much rather be out doing this... We just brought her home last week. I'm getting a little refresher with our local expert...a little chilly, but still fun! https://i.ibb.co/DwngQr5/Stearman1.jpg Last summer! Only had her out a few times this year, it really needs to warm up! https://i.ibb.co/pLHkCxt/Cub1.jpg RW gets it, the open door is the best. Then again, 300kias at 300’ doesn’t suck. |
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Posted: 5/12/2020 2:03:12 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By esa17: Then again, 300kias at 300’ doesn’t suck. No, that does not suck. At all.  What does suck is after flying for 15 min at 350kts below 2500ft, getting told by the boss, who was also the pilot, to go repaint the outside cockpit window frames that the 350kt airflow just stripped near clean. Every. Freakin’. Time.
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Posted: 5/12/2020 3:36:40 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Rbass: No, that does not suck. At all. What does suck is after flying for 15 min at 350kts below 2500ft, getting told by the boss, who was also the pilot, to go repaint the outside cockpit window frames that the 350kt airflow just stripped near clean. Every. Freakin’. Time. Thats why we're limited to 300. Since I'm the pilot and the mechanic I try and take real good care of her. 
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Posted: 5/12/2020 3:40:15 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryThe MIG-29 would be fun, but you have to go to Russia. And the little matter of €17,500. |
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Posted: 5/12/2020 4:19:03 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By RagingWhite: Word! At this point in my life, I'd much rather be out doing this... We just brought her home last week. I'm getting a little refresher with our local expert...a little chilly, but still fun! https://i.ibb.co/DwngQr5/Stearman1.jpg Fuuuuuuck yeaaaaaaaaa! Stearman is 100% the correct answer. As is the "extend the downwind leg" photo. Well done. |
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Posted: 5/14/2020 9:37:15 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By MudEagle: Fuuuuuuck yeaaaaaaaaa! Stearman is 100% the correct answer. As is the "extend the downwind leg" photo. Well done. Lol, right! The Stearman is fun...keeps you on your toes for sure! Guy on my home airfield has 2 N3Ns flying with 1 more that will be flying this summer (plus like 4 more in various forms of restoration). Hoping to get out and do some formation stuff with them this summer. |
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Posted: 5/14/2020 11:14:11 PM EDT
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I spent close to 900 hours in N224DF back in the day. Did over 2,000 rides in her at pancake breakfasts, the Stearman Flyin, and airshows throughout the upper Midwest between 1991-2005.
 It was a great honor to own her for fourteen years, she is at the Tri-States Warbird Museum now. I need to fly an A-4 and F-104... |
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Posted: 5/15/2020 2:37:56 PM EDT
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This is a turn of thread that I can get behind. In the back cockpit.
Unless I'm flying the PT-19, which is solo from either. |
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Posted: 5/15/2020 3:05:05 PM EDT
[#33]
I wonder what the functional rebuilt limit is to a piston engine?
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Posted: 5/15/2020 4:41:11 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By F224: I spent close to 900 hours in N224DF back in the day. Did over 2,000 rides in her at pancake breakfasts, the Stearman Flyin, and airshows throughout the upper Midwest between 1991-2005. It was a great honor to own her for fourteen years, she is at the Tri-States Warbird Museum now. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By F224: I spent close to 900 hours in N224DF back in the day. Did over 2,000 rides in her at pancake breakfasts, the Stearman Flyin, and airshows throughout the upper Midwest between 1991-2005. It was a great honor to own her for fourteen years, she is at the Tri-States Warbird Museum now. Gorgeous looking bird! I'll have to get down there some day...that's just down the road. Originally Posted By MudEagle: This is a turn of thread that I can get behind. In the back cockpit. Unless I'm flying the PT-19, which is solo from either. Lol right! I'm right there with ya! There is a PT-19 for sale on Barnstormers right meow. |
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Posted: 5/15/2020 6:24:16 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Screechjet1: I wonder what the functional rebuilt limit is to a piston engine? At least 10,000 hours. Interesting developments in the radial engine field. The Continental W670 also powered the Sherman Tank, the crankcase back half is different in the aircraft version, but all the other parts interchange. There are literally thousands of tank engines still around in boxes on restorers shelves, so availability of parts is not a problem. Better choice yet for Stearman (and any other airplane that ran the W670) is the new build 275hp Jacobs engines. Had I kept N224DF, that's the engine I would have replaced the W670 with. 55hp and the constant speed prop really make a difference with that airframe. |
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Posted: 5/15/2020 6:30:26 PM EDT
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Just join the Air Force, you'll likely get a free ride in a fighter jet. Even better be a pilot in the Air Force. Or if you're rich just buy an old fighter jet with no weapons.
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Posted: 5/16/2020 1:41:07 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By GunDisaster: Just join the Air Force, you'll likely get a free ride in a fighter jet. Even better be a pilot in the Air Force. Or if you're rich just buy an old fighter jet with no weapons. Just make sure you join as a nonner, you’ll get way more rides then those peasant mechanics. |
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Posted: 5/16/2020 4:27:12 AM EDT
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Posted: 5/16/2020 7:41:02 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By F224: Better choice yet for Stearman (and any other airplane that rand the W670) is the new build 275hp Jacobs engines. Had I kept N224DF, that's the engine I would have replaced the W670 with. 55hp and the constant speed prop really make a difference with that airframe. We're actually considering building our engine reserve around around a 275hp Jake. I havent flown behind one yet, hopefully in a few weeks I'll get a chance. |
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Posted: 5/16/2020 4:41:23 PM EDT
[#40]
Low and slow is fun. Although sometimes more challenging than low and fast in ways I don’t expect. |
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Posted: 5/16/2020 7:51:52 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By GunDisaster: Just join the Air Force, you'll likely get a free ride in a fighter jet. Even better be a pilot in the Air Force. Or if you're rich just buy an old fighter jet with no weapons. Consider the Navy and Marine Corps. Decide what you want to fly, which service flying it, and make your decision. I flew F-4's in the Marine Corps. There are some really good choices today. |
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Posted: 5/16/2020 7:56:32 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Warhawk: This was the highlight of my 4 year USAF career. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/33552/3A445B8A-4277-4341-A707-264A439936A9_jpe-1418029.JPG Details, man! Where, when, and why? |
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Posted: 5/16/2020 7:57:35 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By disorientedpilot: Low and slow is fun. Although sometimes more challenging than low and fast in ways I don’t expect. Agreed. All part of that all-important airmanship/experience bucket. |
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Posted: 5/17/2020 6:22:19 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By MudEagle: Details, man! Where, when, and why? Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By MudEagle: Originally Posted By Warhawk: This was the highlight of my 4 year USAF career. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/33552/3A445B8A-4277-4341-A707-264A439936A9_jpe-1418029.JPG Details, man! Where, when, and why? 12/31/85 ... Eglin AFB. I went through a whole bunch of bullshit to win Wing Airman of the Quarter, because the prize was an incentive ride. Four F-15s took off together, and split up for 2 on 2 dogfight training. Pulled 7 positive and 2 negative G’s. Less than a year later I had PCS’ed to Bitburg Germany. I was on a TDY to Duchimomoneau (Italian Air Base) and fixed the radar on the squadron commanders jet. He had one of the Captains give me another incentive ride. This one was a 2 ship intercept flight, got to do Mach 1.5 over the Mediterranean. |
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Posted: 5/17/2020 7:37:29 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By ClemY: Consider the Navy and Marine Corps. Decide what you want to fly, which service flying it, and make your decision. I flew F-4's in the Marine Corps. There are some really good choices today. Rahhh Marine. What years did you fly? |
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Posted: 5/19/2020 9:16:21 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 0612Devil: Rahhh Marine. What years did you fly? I arrived in Pensacola to begin flight school in July 1970 and my last flight in the F-4 was March 1980. |
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Posted: 7/5/2020 1:51:22 PM EDT
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No flights in f-18's or f-15's? I would love to get a chance to ride in one of those. I'd be ok with an f-4 phantom as well haha.
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Posted: 7/6/2020 4:19:36 AM EDT
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I got an incentive ride in an F-15 in 2010....best day of my life (minus divorce in 2007).
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Posted: 7/6/2020 4:34:48 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: It costs most guys about 10 years of their life. I've got a about 800 hrs in an A4, I'll sell you one for a beer 
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