Fighter Pilot Reacts to the 9 Most Ridiculous Myths People Believe about Fighter Jets Article

Here’s a movie missile myth: a missile will go fast enough to catch up to a jet until it’s about 10 feet away… then it will match the jet’s speed and keep pace until the jet pilot can cause it to crash into something else.

Only the best architecture candidates get selected for the Blue Angles.

Heavy Aircraft Pilots: “We’re trained in defensive maneuvers for when things go wrong” Fighter Pilot: I’m when things go wrong

One of the best ever from Flight of the Intruder. "Don't ask a man if he's a fighter pilot. If he is, he'll let you know. If he isn't, don't embarrass him."

You can’t possibly ruin “Wonder Woman 1984”. The filmmaker did that already. They stole a fighter jet from the Smithsonian and flew to the Middle East. Why a museum jet was fueled and ready for flight and how it managed to fly 8000 miles without refueling was never explained.

Damnit Mover, everything on the internet is TRUE. You know this, stop it.

"You are not gonna win a war by yourself" *LAUGHS IN ACE COMBAT* Seriously though, you are right.

My dad was a pilot in the RAF. He initially went for fast jet, but his biggest problem was that he couldn’t think as fast as the plane was travelling. So he got put onto multi engine, and in his early career was flying recce flights over Berlin so military photographers could snap the defences on the Soviet side. Later he went into flying VIPs, specifically the royal family.

How can Top Gun teach the "best of the best" if the best are heavy pilots? This author doesn't even stop to think that they've contradicted themselves. Also, I love those Angles!

As a sheetmetal mechanic who was stationed at Nellis, I loved the F-16! F-15’s were constantly over-G’d and needing maintenance, but the 16’s were extremely well built aircraft :)

As a kid in the sixties, my dad would drive us to the flight line to watch the the new F-4 PHANTOM shoot touch and go landings. When they hit the after burner the noise was tremendous and the two small exhaust dots ( we were in the car outside the fence) got a lot bigger. As the sun was setting this was quite a show that I still remember fondly after over 50 years. My dad flew a KC-135 for 15 0f his 20 years. We were at Homestead at the time.

7:10 I was driving down a lonely desert road once when I saw a jet fighter making what looked to me like an attack run. As there was no one else around I started jinking back and forth from one side to the other. The plane flashed over at very low AGL and I continued strait down the road. The plane then flew over again from behind and performed a beautiful aileron roll. I am 98% sure he was letting me know I was "dead". It was actually a very cool experience.

Blue Angles! Too funny!!!! Mover’s head was building pressure there. Handled it well. ;)

As a retired Navy pilot who flew COD's (C-2A Greyhound) in the fleet, as an IP with the FRS, and also, a T-45C Goshawk IP who went through the BFM, TAC form syllabus, etc....that was as basic as you get in terms of just the beginning of tactical jet training, it was much harder than flying a cargo plane off the boat. Granted, the COD was much harder to land on the boat than the T-45 but the Goshawk is a trainer, it should be easier. The almost 1000 hours I flew in the Goshawk made me an overall better pilot than if I had just flown COD's my whole career. Being able to have SA, operate radio comms, instruct, etc in a highly dynamic 3d arena just puts you on another level versus the straight and level flying of big wing stuff. Right on Mover!

I was pleasantly surprised how you addressed the cobra maneuver. For some reason, people range from thinking it's either completely useless or that it makes the fighter invincible. I've even heard pilots make these claims. But you quickly described it objectively. Bravo!

Historically speaking, being a heavy guy could be pretty tough. Imagine being in a B-17 on the second Schweinfurt raid. Fly in tight formation the entire mission, while getting shot at for like three hours.

I scrolled to see if it was there. Fighter jock radios the tanker he is transiting with and says, "Watch this!" He proceeds to do some rolls and loops. Arriving back on station He radios, "What do ya think of that?" The Tanker pilot radios back, "Watch THIS!" He then disappears from view and reappears a few minutes later and radios the fighter jock again, "What did you think of THAT!" The jock, confused, says, "What? You didn't do anything." The tanker responds, "Yes I did. I got up. Took a piss. Got a cup of coffee and made a sandwich. CAN you DO THAT?!?!?

"Jinking" was probably the most violent maneuver we practiced in the F-4.

During WW2 some new pilots thought that if you had an enemy aircraft behind you then doing a barrel roll would stop them shooting you down. Of course this would work. But only if the pilot behind you realised you are an idiot and his sudden burst of laughter threw off his aim.

Relative to today's media, the fact that you said "true" more than once is astounding.