[sigfubar]

I get a good chuckle out of these articles. “Here’s another thing I lack that was supposed to make me live longer!”

Speaking of living longer: I’ve had my fill of fast cars already, but how about an airplane? I watched some guys fly Piper Cubs in Alaska. That looked fun as hell. https://youtu.be/XXuIA_b35fs

Perhaps I’ll buy one of those. They aren’t so expensive.

[decafninja]

I wanted to be a fighter pilot when I was a kid. I also wanted to be a racecar driver.

Today, I love sports cars. I’ve had a few fast cars, and owning a 911 is on my bucket list.

Funny enough, I have no interest in learning to fly. Though I’m still very into military aviation as a topic.

Maybe it’s because the delta between say, a 911 and a racecar is smaller than that between a civilian prop plane and a fighter jet?

[TeMPOraL]

> Maybe it’s because the delta between say, a 911 and a racecar is smaller than that between a civilian prop plane and a fighter jet?

For me it'd be more because the first three are pastimes, the fourth one is a job.

You don't get to own a fighter jet and fly it around the world doing stunts or taking in sights just because you can; you can't take your friends or loved ones with you either. You are granted the right to fly an expensive piece of government property, whose operating costs can be counted in average taxpayer's annual income tax per hour. You fly where you're told, when you're told, how you're told. The point it gets most exciting, the point where you are granted most authority over your mission, is the point where you're shooting at someone or being shot at.

The movies make it look like all four things you mentioned are fundamentally the same in terms of feelings of freedom. It's not the only case. Adult me got disillusioned about a lot of career paths I dreamed of as a kid :(.

[bravetraveler]

Too much math/paperwork for flying, I'll take the [fast? unique?] car.