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[–] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 48 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Two chicks at the same time

[–] bender@insaneutopia.com 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thats it? If you had a fighter jet, you’d do two chicks at the same time?

[–] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 year ago (6 children)
[–] 342heathbar@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (6 children)

You can’t pickup chicks in a fighter jet

[–] dandroid@dandroid.app 8 points 1 year ago

Oh, you know what? You could bitch about anything couldn't you? We're going to get a fighter jet, and you're worried about chicks. What chicks are we gonna pick up, man? And secondly, how are you gonna pick up chicks in a car that looks like that?

[–] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

Maybe you can't

[–] ccunix@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Tom Cruise begs to differ

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[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

And it’s really hard to have sex in a fighter jet. It's not exactly a roomy interior.

For having sex, the best experience is a minivan.

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[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 46 points 1 year ago

Return it to Pepsi.

[–] CobraChicken@lemmy.ca 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I discover the crashed F35 in my lone walk in the woods. As I start to take it apart for parts, a woman catches me. She tells me to stop. It's her father's business. She's Lockheed. I say no. We make love all night. In the morning, the feds come and I escape in one of their uniforms. I tell her to meet me in Mexico, but I go to Canada. I don't trust her. Besides, I like the cold. Thirty years later, I get a postcard. I have a son and he's the chief of FBI. This is where the story gets interesting. I tell Lockheed to meet me in Paris by the Trocadero. She's been waiting for me all these years. She's never taken another lover. I don't care, I don't show up. I go to Berlin. That's where I stashed the F35

[–] WrittenWeird@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Considering it is apparently a federal offense to tamper with aviation debris or accident scenes (assuming the plane looks intact) absolutely nothing, call local cops, they call AF.

[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

Oh boy, aren't you the life of the party

[–] Overstuff9499@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago (4 children)

question why in the hell I am in South Carolina?

[–] sagrotan@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

That is a very good question. Next question please.

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[–] Deestan@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Call the number on one of the "Plane missing! Have you seen me? ✈️ ✈️ ✈️" posters the Air Force put up all over the neighborhood.

[–] SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

turns up with weirdly f35 fighter jet shaped stomach. No, officer! I have never seen any jet, none at all! Nope, not a single tasty fighter jet around here! hic

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[–] bender@insaneutopia.com 8 points 1 year ago

Its on the light poles with the lost cat.

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

Trade it in for a boatload of pepsi points.

[–] vettnerk@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Claim 10% finders fee and retire.

[–] theKalash@feddit.ch 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hotbox the cockpit. And this would only be the 2nd time I hotboxed the cockpit of a fighterjet.

[–] lettruthout@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Story time! Details please!

[–] theKalash@feddit.ch 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Ha, I thought nobody would ask. It probably will be quite a disapointing story though, sorry.

Anyway, I was on holiday in Slovakia and basically, they just have old sovjet jets sitting around. We visited a very small "airport" (the runway was grass) used for skydiving. And they just had a MiG-21 sitting behind the building. No fence or anything. One of the Skydiving company staff said I can sit in it, if I want. So I did. He didn't come with me or anything. It was also out if sight from anyone on the airfield.

Apperently this isn't unusual at all and these planes are just sitting around in random fields as "decoration".

Here's a googlemaps link. I sat in that one!

[–] Dadifer@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So did you smoke weed in it, or not?

[–] theKalash@feddit.ch 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I did sit in the cockpit smoking a joint with the canopea almost closed. For a minute.

[–] Blizzard@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ok, that's what hotbox means! Even better than farting, now it's an awesome story man!

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[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You've just given me a goal, except the only place I know with airplanes laying around is a museum. I'd feel bad hotboxing a plane in a museum.

[–] theKalash@feddit.ch 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I’d feel bad hotboxing a plane in a museum.

Yeah, don't do that. To be honest, I didn't even close the canopea fully, I worried about not getting out. I sat on the wing for most of the lenght of the joint.

But It sounded much cooler this way.

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[–] bstix@feddit.dk 12 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Assuming I could figure out how to turn that thing on, I would definitely:

  • Take off
  • Go to maximum velocity
  • Burn out all the fuel
  • Acknowledge that I have no idea of where or how to land
  • Look for the button to the ejection seat
  • Glide down towards the equator
  • Eyeball the necessary altitude
  • Push the button
  • Pull the parachute cord
  • Flip both the birds
  • Land on a beach
  • Walk up to the bar
  • Ask for a beer
  • Run from the bill
[–] TheInsane42@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Minor detail, the original pilot left it via the ejector seat...

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[–] Ilovethebomb@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

This one doesn't have an ejection seat, remember?

[–] daf@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

take off

Knew you meant it as a joke but i thought it interesting to share that Fighters don't have a simple "start" button, here's a F-16 startup sequence for reference.

[–] Steve@communick.news 3 points 1 year ago

Most of that isn't involved in actually starting the plane.

They are things that would be good to have done to fly safely. Something analogous to turning on and tuning the radio in a car. You can absolutely start the engine and drive the car without doing that.

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[–] KingGordon@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would fly into the dangerzone.

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[–] teft@startrek.website 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sit in the cockpit and make plane, missile, and machine gun noises since I don’t even know how to turn one on let alone fly it.

[–] snooggums@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Pretty sure this one comes without a seat, and the aftermarket prices are ridiculius!

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

Just a reminder, the last guy to fly it took the seat with him.

[–] Raxiel@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Since it tricked the pilot into ejecting, I assume it's gone feral and is still buzzing around looking for a mate. If I didn't have a big net to snag it in, I'd have to build a wooden decoy or perhaps just leave a paddling pool full of jet fuel out in a clearing. I'd keep my distance at first and try to gain it's trust.

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

get as far away as possible, the smoldering wreckage will be full of toxic gasses and contaminants

[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Assuming no consequences, I'd love to open various panels and try and figure out what does what. It'd be really cool to see inside one of those.

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[–] FoundTheVegan@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Treat that mid thirties lady to a nice relaxing spa day. Somewhere romantic, lots of targets and no hard deck.

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[–] YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a Marine F-35B and likely crashed into a lake.

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[–] Moobythegoldensock@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Use it to fly back home, realize I don’t know how to fly. I’d assume crash after that, but there’s a good chance I wouldn’t be able to figure out how to turn it on, in which case I’d take a bus.

[–] Ziggurat@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Stay away from it, I am fine flying paraglider or ultra-lights , but the F-35 crashes way too much to my taste

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