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Which aircraft would you steal?

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The most produced fighter aircraft of all time of course!

BF-109:
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Love the startup sounds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_a_TETqe1Cg
 
gulfstream a550 or the sultan of bruneis Airbus 380 with full pimp treatment. Who need a house.

It is rumored that if you go to bars and ask hot girls to come on your plane they do it
 
Bock said:
FYI, there are now startup & takeoff videos for aircraft on youtube.
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Thanks to DigitalCombatSimulator I'm pretty confident that I could hop into an airworthy/functional 109 and get it started. Getting the taildragger to taxi/up in the air is a completely other story though...
 
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My first thought was something like a P-51, Spitfire, or maybe a Sea Fury. But practicality reigns and I think I would just go with a Gulfstream G650.

-KeithP
 
A Stuka dive-bomber, I wouldn't want to actually bomb anyone but they fitted them with loud sirens that got your attention as it came in for an attack. It was the only true dive-bomber capable of a 90 degree vertical attack in WW2. Interesting fact is that when they designed the A-10 they spoke at length with Hans-Ulrich Rudel who (using the Stuka) flew 2,530 combat missions, (a record that still stands today as the higest ever) claiming a total of 2,000 targets destroyed; including 800 vehicles, 519 tanks, 150 artillery pieces, 70 landing craft, nine aircraft, four armored trains, several bridges, a destroyer, two cruisers, and the Soviet battleship Marat. Interesting man, nice Wiki page about him, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-Ulrich_Rudel
 
MongGrel said:
Yep he was good.

Stuka only hit about 175 or so and the later Russian fighter planes ate em up.
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Hell ANY fighter ate up the Stuka, it did have a rear gunner but he's got one gun while the pilot on your six has 4-6 guns/cannon coming at you. The fact that he survived the entire war flying the Stuka is amazing in and of itself.
 
BUTCH1 said:
Hell ANY fighter ate up the Stuka, it did have a rear gunner but he's got one gun while the pilot on your six has 4-6 guns/cannon coming at you. The fact that he survived the entire war flying the Stuka is amazing in and of itself.
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He must of been stuck somewhere with a lot of CAP with a lot of tanks running around, yeah.
 
MongGrel said:
He must of been stuck somewhere with a lot of CAP with a lot of tanks running around, yeah.
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He was also a master of this version of the Stuka which had 2 anti-tank guns mounted under the wings, he was credited with destroying 12 T-34's in one sorti but in the end none of it mattered, the Russians could crank out 34's like pancakes.
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I've thought about this a few times. The current first answer is a Pilatus PC-12.
Goes into the majority of airports around the world. Pressurized, still small enough to be fun to fly.
The next less practical choice was an OV-10 Bronco. Noisy, slow, but a great view and decent performance down by the dirt.
 
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