Have you ever been on a plane? Have you ever flown one? What’s your favorite one (s)?

[love_conquers_lust]

Been on commercial planes. I’ve "flown" a couple small fixed wing single prop planes, I didn’t take off or land nor do I have a license:

“Copilot"

My favorites:

A10 Warthog- “Tank Buster”

Incoming

A10 Warthog 30mm Bullet and Nose Gun

SR-71 Blackbird

Have seen grounded at an air show, fastest in the world

F-117 Nighthawk

It looks like a flying bicycle on radar, if picked it up at all

B-2 Bomber

Saw it in flight at air show, scary. You can't hear it until it passes by, after it has already dropped its payload

F-22 Raptor

Work horse of the USAF

[MiddleAgedClimbee]

I've been in a few small private planes. My dad has a private pilot's license and they have a four seater Piper Cherokee. I've gotten a ride in one open cab biplane with one of his "hanger bums"". Open air is definitely a thrill.

[love_conquers_lust]

The windshield is high enough to create a wind break/slipstream, is it not? I’d imagine your face freezing if it didn’t.

I remember seeing biplanes at an air show. They did wild stunts.

[MiddleAgedClimbee]

It was in the summertime, long before we ever moved out of the Midwest. We had the special goggles and there was a small windshield.

[Radiate143]

I have been a passenger on many planes. I'm not into planes per se, so I can't really go on about them.

I know I have been on Airbusses and Boeings. I have flown on smaller planes as well.

All I know, is that I'm paranoid of Boeing planes after the crashes and their greed-driven practices were exposed.

[Radiate143]

All these jets just remind me of mass murder through our countries foreign policy.

[love_conquers_lust]

Most of these are Lockheed Martin.

It’s a one sided mischaracterization to call the US mass murderers. More times than not, they’re deterrents to hold people to their word when we’re deploying economic interests.

I more wanted to admire the technological prowess of these engineering marvels. That F-22 is a supersonic stealth jet that can dog fight with Migs and make bombing runs. So another country’s rogue factions should think twice before attacking US company backed refineries and manufacturing facilities designed to benefit the US AND locals because they disagree with their own countrymen about who owns what.

[Radiate143]

I didn't call them all mass murderers. I said it reminds me of the mass murder that is committed. Certainly they are feats of engineering and look cool. But if you have never been in a war torn country it's easy to forget what they are used for... dropping bombs on people. It's no secret many unjust civilian casualties have come about from them. And I have a particular disdain for Lockheed Martin.

[love_conquers_lust]

I haven’t. But this country has been war torn multiple times.

I don’t really want to debate this but they’re used to go after rogue factions who disrupt our economic interests. Countries will ask for aid from the US. Like when a terrorist group hijacking a refinery that was built by US or European companies, it will get bombed, and piss of the companies who tried to improve things for the locals there. They lose all that capital investment. What happens is OTHER locals become dissatisfied and feel they’re entitled to something they didn’t have the know how to access themselves.

The essence of what happens is people ask developed countries fro help and it spawns internal conflict due to greed and envy. This crap about the oil being “their” oil is nonsense. You can’t play the proverbial dog in the manger then ask for help and point fingers when the those countries won’t help you for free. It’s what happened with Al Queda, it’s what happened with nationalization of oil in Venezuela (or any country), it’s also what happened with drug cartels.

Undeveloped countries ask for help and then they use it to terrorize their own people. So, why help at all if they’re going to hate us if we help and hate us if we don’t? The only thing they’re “happy” with is you becoming their slave. Seriously, that’s the essence of their behavior.

What did Lockheed Martin do?

[Radiate143]

If the oil comes out of their la dnits their oil sonI don't even know what that is supposed to mean.

We aren't going to agre ein this. As Kissinger so sociopathcally stated 'America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests.

Lockheed Martin thrives on the misery of people.

[love_conquers_lust]

We can debate mineral rights. But the prevailing law of the land is the rule of capture. If you can get it up out of the ground, it's yours. It's the same shit with patents. You can only hold them for so long before it becomes communal/public property. There's no point in innovating if it can't be shared with others to imitate.

But you can't steal shit from people or companies. That's the heart of the problem. You can't tell companies "give me your technology for free", that's enslavement or stealing. How you can't agree with that is beyond me.

That's not a specific enough example of Lockheed Martin.

[douride2]

I have flown on a handful of 727 & 737s. I have also flown on numerous small to medium sized piston & turbo-prop planes.

[NathanDavis]

Classic...

... Beauty

[Massageman]

Been on commercial jets down to a 50-seat Embraer on a local puddle jumper flight, plus a helicopter and a sea plane. Helped to build a Zenith 700-series "kit plane" that was shipped to Mozambique for missionary work.

[love_conquers_lust]

I’ve been on a helicopter, too. They were doing these $5 for 5 minutes on a helicopter in Tennessee.

What’s the landing like on a seaplane?

[Massageman]

A little bit jouncy, but smoother than I thought it would be. The shape of the pontoons pushed the spray outward on our plane, and then it just uses the natural drag of the water to slow down and then it - essentially- just becomes a catamaran and coasts in to the dock.

[collie22]

You don't mean commercial jets I'm thinking. One time I got a ride on a T-28 at an air show, that was so crazy. It cost 200 for that ride. It was so amazing I loved it.

[love_conquers_lust]

Commercial jets qualify. Fir instance, I’ve never been on an Airbus.

[collie22]

Okay got yeah. I've flown a few times but never out of the country.

[exitseven]

I have flown on planes a lot but have not been on one since before 9/11.

[love_conquers_lust]

Now that is truly fascinating. Why?

[exitseven]

The long lines and the cavity searches just have me really turned off of flying.

[love_conquers_lust]

I have yet to hear of, witness, or experience a cavity search.

I find it depends on the airport for traffic. I didn’t like how massive the Houston airport was where I terminals can be a half a mile from one another for connecting flights.

[exitseven]

I have ben to the Houston airport/ Isn't there like a little train you take to go between terminals.

[love_conquers_lust]

Yup, Skyway and subway trains. I rode it. I was going to Borger. I think I had to get on a Continental Express plane from there.

[exitseven]

Borger Texas? I have been there too. My ex girlfriend had an uncle that lived there. We drove down I35 between OKC and Dallas and we stopped to visit him.

[love_conquers_lust]

Yeah, I was interviewing for a job with Conoco Phillips while I was still in school. No offer.

Seeing the desert in full moonlight was a sight to behold.

[exitseven]

Nothing quite like Texas in the summertime.

[purplepoppy]

I've only been on commercial planes nothing fancy. A B1 Lancer flew over my farm at midnight last month, my sheep weren't impressed.

[joehypo1]

I have a few favs f4u corsair, p47 thunderbolt, a10 thundrbolt 2 f-23 black widow 2

[Nikki1989]

I have been all over the world, so I have been on many.

[Worst]

Yeah I've been on various amounts of planes when I've gone on vacation...

Basing my favorite jet off of a game I've played (F35)

[strateguy632]

i was on a passnger