Greatest American Fighter Aircraft Ever?

CFetters_Nacho_Lover said:

GrundleStiltzkin said:

A-10 pilot shot down a helicopter in Iraq. I'll allow it.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-02-08-mn-937-story.html

Still doesn’t make it a fighter. Be like saying a B-29 shooting down a Zero over Japan makes the B-29 a fighter.

Aerial combat superiority guym. Every theatre has one.

CFetters_Nacho_Lover said:

My first thought upon seeing this pole was I fucking love A-10s. I’ve them up close in training and from a distance in Afghanistan but I also know the pole subject was greatest Fighter plane thereby making the A-10 ineligible.

Sounds like some poasters need to learn the difference between types of military planes.

What's wrong with you guysm?

YellowSnow said:

1to392831weretaken said:

What's wrong with you guysm?

F-16 are great and were cheap to build, but are they really an all timer like the others on this list? Note - I had to include the F-18 for @Swaye but I guess an F-16 is faster and more maneuverable right?

Uh, I don't remember the A-fucking-6 having FOUR movies in its series! No, it had one. And it was badass. Especially that scene where they fly over Whidbey.

YellowSnow said:

1to392831weretaken said:

YellowSnow said:

1to392831weretaken said:

What's wrong with you guysm?

F-16 are great and were cheap to build, but are they really an all timer like the others on this list? Note - I had to include the F-18 for @Swaye but I guess an F-16 is faster and more maneuverable right?

Uh, I don't remember the A-fucking-6 having FOUR movies in its series! No, it had one. And it was badass. Especially that scene where they fly over Whidbey.

Lulz. A-6 ain’t no fighter. That’s just me fucking with Der Glove.

My voting criteria is strictly how white-trash-legendary each plane's movies are.

One of my dads was in Top Gun, buttfuck: IRON FUCKING EAGLE!

I mean, Airwolf isn't a fighter jet, either, but it should be on this fucking list.

Also, fuck it, I don't care if this makes me soft or whatever, but I loved the Pearl Harbor movie. It came out back when I still had some hearing left, and I lost the rest of it cranking it up just to hear those P-40s. They did a great job with the sound effects.

RaceBannon said:

I don't know if you are being sarcastic but Iron Eagle really is an awesome movie

A teenager blowing up a sovereign state is the kind of shit Hollywood just doesn't do anymore

Remember this one?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXTC3bu_bwo

RaceBannon said:

I missed that one

I was only five when that movie came out, remember nothing about it, but vaguely recall thinking it was awesome that a kid not much older than me was flying an SR-71.

At the time, I didn't consider at all how ludicrous of a premise it was that there's this top secret spy plane sitting in a random hangar with the door open, fully fueled and ready to fly.

Swaye said:

The only reason the Air Force created the F-22 is so they could finally win something. Fags.

Disagree. That's just flying jets, not real life like college football:

The Mustang is just so cool!