Anyone here ever dreamed of owning a fighter jet, even just

>>29481800
No.

>>29481800
yes

>>29481800
Yes.

You can find used migs for less than $100,000, sometimes much less.

It would take a lot of money to keep them flying, but if you just wanted it mounted in your front yard, pointed menacingly at your least favorite neighbor...

>>29481800
There is a mother fucker down my street with a mig fuselage in his back yard. He also has a variety of terrifying shit all over the place

>>29481921
Go take a picture

>>29481929
Do you want me to be killed?

>>29481969
exaggerating isnt healthy

Not a fighter jet, but I've often thought that if I had infinite money one of the first things on my list would be to get my own SR-71.

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>>29482006
I live near Castle Air Museum here in California. There's an SR-71 that I pass by every week to work. It's fucking awesome, beautiful, beautiful plane. It's like something out of a scifi movie.

>>29481800
Only every single day, OP

>>29481996
I need you to understand that I am talking about an unstable individual. I might snap a picture on my way to work tuesday. But I'm not stopping for a photo op

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>>29482036
It's always been my favourite aircraft, absolutely beautiful.
>mfw I'm an aerospace engineer but not a US citizen
>I'll probably never get to work on cool secret aircraft like the SR-71

>>29481800
Don't know if I'd say "fighter" jet or "display", but I'm slowly working toward an L-29 for fun and racing.

>>29482099
Just post a picture from Google Maps Streetview

I'd rather just have a Cessna or a helicopter.
Even if I could afford a plane, the hanger fees and maintenance would be too much for me.

I'm waiting for the A-10 to retire, then I plan on buying one of the airframes at auction.

I will display it in my front yard proudly.

No, no one.

>>29481800
guy who works on busted ass jets here
not worth it
too damn expensive

>>29482507
>even just for display
I don't think you understand what OP means. Nobody short of multi-millionaires would be able to actually maintain them. The rest of us are talking about a static display.

>>29481800
are you saying there have been moments in your life you have *NOT* dreamed of owning a fighter jet?

>>29482507
What did you work on?

>>29482518
And what do you think, it's gonna cost you about tree fiddy to get an old combat jet and move it to your property?

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>>29482598
I see them sometimes on Craigslist. There's one here for only $650

http://sacramento.craigslist.org/pts/5515654713.html

>>29482128
Emigrate. If you want something in life, take it.

>>29482570
also: yes I have dreamed of owning one, in fact I'd like to own all kinds of things & put them on display in my yard, I think I could start small, like with an 81mm mortar (or 120mm if I can find one), then get something like 95 S 58–61 recoilless rifle, maybe get some slavshit APCs/IFVs, then finally get something like a MiG-21bis, or perhaps even one of F/A-18C/Ds if I can find the money to buy a stripped one from FiAF after they are replaced & before someone gets the bright idea of selling them for scraps.

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ever since my father and I made a model of one. It's all I've ever wanted.

If I had one I would keep it so quiet and then surprise my father with a flight in it.

>>29482598
yeah

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There was a woman here who had a F-104 Starfighter in her garden for almost 20 years as an "art object"

Later the MoD removed it because they found out it was radioactive, kek

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>>29482621
not lying, would buy.
>>29482579
anything vietnam or earlier
ww2 stuff too
combloc is cheaper than us
I only like flyables and potential flyables
motherfuckers who bondo over corrosion should be shot
I have f14 parts that the navy would seize if they knew I had them
the military has a habit of stealing civilian owned planes

>>29482151
this do this please

i used to volunteer at a local airfeild museum.
>field is a few blocks from my college
>used to be AFB from WW2 until the 80's
>go up during lunch/between classes to help catalogue shit people donated/rearrange displays
>get an A37 dragonfly on loan to display
>all the old vietnam pilots who work there are playing with it and making jokes
>one of them pulls an emergency cable to spook the others
>chair punches hole in the celing and leaves a cloud of smoke that fills the whole room
>one of them dumps a fire extinguisher on us, the cockpit, and anything else nearby
>they spend the next few hours arguing if those were even in there originally and who would be dumb enough to leave it there
>meanwhile crazy gramps who set it off in the first place is complaining about the "rockets in the seat being damn korean shit that expired"
>"you know they fucked it cause my arms still here"
>procedes to pull more emergency tabs to see what else they forgot
fucking old people man.

>>29482598
You'd be surprised how inexpensive old, abused airframes are.

>>29482813
top kek

>>29482741
That's not the first time somebody's ended up with a Starfighter in their yard.

>>29482862
inb4 jokes involving buying a property in West-Germany...

>>29481800
Who hasn't, too bad I'll never be able to have an F-14 in my yard after the government shredded them all to prevent Iran from getting spare parts.

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>>29483060
Absolutely fucking stupid choice that was. What were they thinking the Iranians would do? Walk into some boneyard with handtruck and take parts?
At least a fair number of them are preserved in museums, but the fact none fly makes me incredibly sad.
I honestly think the only reason they were scrapped was to prevent Northrop-Grumman from being able to modernize them and to force the Navy to buy into something new.

>>29481800
I don't know what red-blooded American boy didn't...but then I'm an Air Force brat so I'm a bit biased.

Honestly though, I'd rather own one of the bombers from WWII, especially a B-25.

>>29481800
yeah, but i'd like to have something old school like a F4.
ideally i'd like to have a tank.
who the fuck doesn't want a M60?

I have kinda, I want an inert JDAM in a glass case for a coffee table

>>29483194
i'd rather have a cutaway replica Little Boy with glass over it as a coffee table.

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>>29481800
>not wanting a T-54 tank you can actually buy legally

>>29483303
yeah but it can't fire unless you have an assload of paperwork and licenses

>>29483319
Or you just convert the gun to a giant blackpowder/T-shirt cannon.

>>29482813
cool made up story, dude

>>29481800

i want one just for the avionics

I'm an EE and it's my fetish

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>>29481800

Some clickbait on youtube. Retired msrine bought a harrier.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-PHcdn8R4d4

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>>29483127

>>29484001
If this thread is still up when I get home from work I'll post a pic of the aftermath.

>>29481800
dream of mine is to co-own a soviet jet with my father.

Im hoping that by the time I have the cash to spare (and the time, space, knowledge of how to maintain one ect...), Mig 21's will be cheap as fuck after all the world's air forces retire them and start selling off the ones they don't want to keep in storage.

I've already told my father that he should expect fly by's on his cottage whenever he stays there if I ever get the Fishbed.

But any military jet that's cheap and easy to handle will do (L-39's would be sweet too)

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>>29485737
FiAF might have some available, though they might be something of fixer-uppers

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>>29481800
The funny thing is I saw someone do this
>Be a brat
>Be with my pops
>Pops is driving over to pick up something
>Not even far
>Just a quick 5 mile drive
>Arrive at the sellers house
>Wasn't really paying attention to what we are getting
>Seller opens his garage which was abnormally huge
>As it opens mfw sees a fucking F-15
>Dead silence between me and my pops
>Seller says it isn't real
>Seller makes full sized replicas just because he can
It may not been exact sized but, it looked so fucking real.

>>29485769
duct tape is good to mach one, shit'll be fine

>>29485769
Romanian air force will be retiring theirs soon, as will the Croats (though I wouldn't want the ones that the Ukies "refurbished").

I'd need to buy a Fishbed when its both widely available and old enough so that other air forces don't want em. That's when they'll be cheap.

In all honesty this is just a dream I tell myself at night so I work harder. I'd be perfectly happy with a turbo prop though or even a mini home made jet.

>>29485835
>tu95s leave service
>now cheap since commieshit
>buy it
>fuckhuge bomber sitting on private craft strip at airport
>in a fucking bear doing 400 foot flybys of your dads house

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>>29481800
does owning a HIND count? then yes. also i would love to own an F14 and F16 and have a giant building as my own deranged shooting house version of Rob Dyrdek's fantasy factory.

and a full sized working drivable Bonaparte from Tank Police.

>>29485876
my friend Mykola from Ukraine has a Tu-160 he'd use to play tag with the Ukrainian Air force, now everyone's telling him he can't do that for the time being, some BS about it being too dangerous...

>>29485876
>dad chilling at lake house, gets phone call
>over the roars of the engine a soft "i'll be there in twenty minutes" is heard being slurred followed by violent puking
>all of lake Shushwap is alive with the sound of a giant roaring engine
>People panic, think its an earthquake
>TU-95 does a flyby almost at ground level, causing tsunami tear waves to capsize all the lake boats
>"FEAR THE BEAR" is heard over the phone before the TU-95 crashes onto the side of the mountain
>several fragments of vodka bottles amounting to at least fifteen bottles are found at the crash site, assumed to have been on the flight

>>29485963
care to elaborate? I made out that your friend had a TU-160, but that sounds wayyy to fucking good to be true.

>>29485978
>but that sounds wayyy to fucking good to be true.
This, if he claimed to have any of the fucktons of various fighter types knocking around I'd buy the story, but a large complex aircraft of which only a small number were ever built, and the scrapping of which in his country was part of a international agreement? Of all the bullshit that gets posted on /k/ this is among the fishiest smelling.
If he claimed his mate used to fly them prior to scrapping and would fuck around with it doing flybys of friends/family it'd be more believable.

>>29483127
There's something called the "black market" anon. If you want something it's probably there. And they had allowed the F-14 to sit in some boneyard, chances, some parts would have made their way to Iran in some way.

>>29481899
Museum grade flyable MiG 17s can be found for as low as 50k...

>>29485737
Yeah, I'd love a mig21. India should be retiring their fleet soon, so there should be a bunch on the market soon.

I hear the engines have a very short lifespan between rebuilds tho.

I think the tiger is probably better on maintenance costs, but you pay a lot more upfront.

Tiger just doesn't have the brutalistic, "Look Ivan we put cockpit on jet engine" soviet aesthetic tho.

>>29486488
Soviets put cockpits on engines, Americans put a cockpit, wings and engines on a gun and christened it Warthog

>>29482128
You have a good chance of being granted citizenship if you're an engineer. Move to the promised land.

>>29485978
>>29486370
There was a picture floating around a while ago of some soviet block houses built up around some old Soviet iron. I dont have the pic saved. I think one of them was a MiG-25 and the other was a TU-22.

So its not outside the realm of possibilities. A lot of old Soviet gear got lost after they broke up.

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>>29485819
Made me chuckle

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>>29485978
>>29485835
>>29485876

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>>29481800
No, I want a Lockheed S-3 Viking for personal transport and free inflight wifi.

I mean look at it. It looks comfy as fuck.

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>>29485819
kerbal engineer please

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>>29487868
I'd rather have a Catalina really.
>more interior room
>doesn't require a fucking catapult-equipped nuclear aircraft carrier under it for water landings and takeoffs
>gives you an excuse to sing the Talespin theme into the radio whenever you feel like it

>>29487999
Well shit, now I have another goal to work for.

>>29485614
we're waiting, you lying faggot

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In 2008 my city was selling a CL-13 Sabre Mk. V that was on display downtown. It wasn't operational and they didn't want to pay to maintain it. They were giving it away for next to nothing and I considered buying it until I found out the environmental regulations were retarded and you had to have insurance out the ass for it. It was an insane burden so no wonder the city wanted it gone for next to nothing.

Pic related, not the exact plane but essentially the same display

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>>29487999
Fuck yes tailspin

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>>29481800

I live 15 minutes from the old Grumman site in Calverton.
Still remember seeing these bad boys flying over the LIE as a kid.

>>29487999
Was there ever a twin boom seaplane like that?

>>29491175
No, it's just a bit of creative license so it wasn't actually a PBY-5 and they could give it silly cartoon capabilities.

>>29491175
>>29491187
Would it be shitty of me if I bought a PBY and painted it that color scheme and proceed to go on wacky adventures across the globe?

My lifelong dream has been to fly in an SR-71. I don't have to own or even pilot it. Just be in one that's cruising at Mach 2.5

>>29491205
If by shitty you mean fucking awesome. Bring along a few /k/ool/k/ids and roll it Black Lagoon style. Smuggle Norincos into Guam, or run MAGA hats to Australia.

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>>29491175
Yes there was, made by germany

>>29482151
>>29482791
>post a pic of an approximate location to a site known for fucking with people

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>>29482813
>>29484001
>>29489764
Correction, its actually a T-37. This is it currently, still trying to find the other photo.
>I need to clean up my files

>>29491757
wtf is that ring for?

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>>29491965
It's called a degaussing loop, it generates a magnetic charge and destroys minefields whilst flying over

>>29482036

I want to have sex with those engines. That is all.

>>29486451
I need a link cuz im no richfag but i can afford that if a flight doesnt cost more than 2k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdackF2H7Qc

a man once collected 7 million pepsi points based on this commercial ^ and then sued pepsi claiming false advertisement when they wouldn't honor their end of the deal and give him his harrier jet

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/1996-man-sues-pepsi-for-not-giving-him-a-harrier-jet/

>>29491998
Imagine the butthurt flying that over a datacenter.

>>29483127
>What were they thinking the Iranians would do? Walk into some boneyard with handtruck and take parts?

Uh, no, corrupt traitors that work at the boneyards would steal the parts and then sell them.
And they did.
Which is why they later shredded them.