Were you into jets growing up?

[Bornstarch]

I think every kid loved fighter jets and wanted to be a fighter pilot

 

[Natural Order]

 

[Contempt]

As a kid? Fuck, I still am. They're awesome.

Anyone who's into them:

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[Swiftie]

 

[Yoel Bromero]

Saw a group of them practicing turns in formation this week, amazing! First time I've seen fighter jets ripping around and they were really low doing air show type manouvers.

I was blown away by the sound of them. Never wanted to go to an air show wver in my life but now I do.

 

[Tone C]

I preferred the Sharks.

 

[Slobodan]

@lsa is a huge fan of the Gripen jet fighter

 

[Sobek]

Yeah a bit. An air show can be amazing for you when you are a kid. (Was lucky enough to see a restored Spitfire too as they are rare now)

I also got to visit one of our country's main air bases on a school excursion, got a tour of the jets at the time (F1-11 and Mirages) and they pointed out that they flew training exercises in our area, which would lead to us rushing outside everytime we heard jets to identify them.
Yes we had model jets hanging from our ceilings by fishing line etc.
This was all in the early to mid 80s.

 

[Zer]

For sure, Top Gun had a big influence on a young @Zer. Although I found out that you needed perfect eyesight to be a fighter pilot and I need glasses just to find my dick

But I got into military hardware in general from reading all my dads Tom Clancy and military fiction books. Plus my Dad was British Army and worked on tanks, so I'd get to hang around them a lot as a kid. So I've always had a big fetish for military stuff

 

[lsa]

@lsa is a huge fan of the Gripen jet fighter

I even own a few

 

[liner]

Hell yeah I was into jets. I got to go to a jet show as a kid and got a poster. Next to my bret hitman hart and Jose canseco poster the jet one was my favorite

 

[Sobek]

F111 for those that didn't know them. I think they were fighter/bombers. Known for a few crashes before we jumped to FA18s.





And the Mirage 3


Sorry for the old footage (I was a kid a long time ago lol).

The Harrier jumpjet was an impressive jet back then too, but Australia didn't have one.

 

[fica]

this guy is into handegg dumbest shit ever lol

 

[zapataxiv]

I preferred the Sharks.

especially if streets were involved
the only thing cooler were felines whO followed the way of the samurai and indulged in pizza

 

[VulcanNervPinch]

Not one of their best, but ok

 

[Law Talkin’ Guy]

I remember in 1998 when I was 13 years old I did a cross Canada road trip with my mom and dad and we visited some relatives in Montreal. My dad’s cousin had married a mechanical engineer who worked for Boeing and they had two sons (my second cousins) that were 11 and 9 years old at the time. They were absolutely obsessed with planes. Their favourite movie was Top Gun, they had tons of fighter jet toys, they had fighter jet helmets (no idea if they were real helmets that their dad got for then somehow with his aviation industry connections or just toy replicas) and they played fighter jet simulator games on their PC. I was absolutely certain at least one of my cousins was going to end up a fighter jet pilot with the Canadian Forces.

Alas, it was apparently not to be. The older one went on to get a degree in mining engineering in 2009 and working in bumfuck nowhere, northern Quebec for Rio Tinto for the last ten or so years. Meanwhile the younger one has pursued academia in the humanities as he moved down to Pittsburg and got his PhD literally in philosophy and now has been struggling to find a job as a professor of philosophy at some university or college for the last three or so years.

No idea what happened for them to turn away from jets so much in the decade after I visited them when I was a young teen.

 

[AFanNotAFighter]

Yup. When I was a kid my dad took me to see the Blue Angels.
When I was in the Navy I was stationed on an aircraft carrier and lived with F-14s and A-6 Intruders.

Next year is going to be the first test flight of the SR-71's successor: SR-72. Son of Blackbird.

 

[Natural Order]

this guy is into handegg dumbest shit ever lol

Settle down Fican, who let you out of your whipping cage over in the sport forum?

 

[Kowboy On Sherdog]

RIP Goose. Gone too soon

 

[fica]

Settle down Fican, who let you out of your whipping cage over in the sport forum?

Lol I mean who can believe American athletes are these alphas that nobody can defeat. When in reality they just talk and when somebody gets in their face like this cop did they bitch and moan about brutality. I mean American do believe they would beat all athletes in other sports it is American fantasy that never happened but if it happens nfl handeggs would be destroyed.