Has anyone ever taken a ride in an F-16?

Question

If I ever win the lottery I would love to have a ride in one of those jets! I see them flying around doing their thing all the time around my house and I love watching them. I heard of one man riding in one a while back. Has anyone else? Has anyone ever wanted to? If I won the lottery I'd buy them a jet just to let me have a ride. :-)

Answer 1

Guess what my daughter is married to a air force senior master Sergent. and he has had to get the planes ready before he shipped out to Alaska if something happened to air force one. that was exciting to me and we were always invited to the air shows and you are right the F-16 are awesome.. and like you it just excites the fire out of me. But I will be more excited when they come home 2 and a half years from now. LOL.

Answer 2

No, but I really want to.  I think about what it would be like alot!

Answer 3

There was a civilian A/B-model Viper that was for sale some time ago in the the mid-west.  The same guy had an early Hornet, too.

He was investigated by the OSI, CDI and most other government agencies but apparently was legit.  I don't know where the airplane(s) are now or who owns them.

Not even sure it was a family model.

And $15K seems light, about 150 guys had to show up for us to just start engines.  Even a 15 man hydrazine response team.

Answer 4

No...But wouldn't it be a BLAST!!!!

Answer 5

been in f-15. two engines and big more expensive than f-16, some or better performance.

no way anyone can describe it

you just don't know what it really feels like until you go for it.

Answer 6

I was in the USAF back in 86-90 and I knew only one enlisted man who got to fly in one and it was only because he got airman of the year. As far as I knew it, and I'm sure it's still the policy today, you can't buy your way into a ride. There is so much liability and the price tag just for a ride then was about $15K. At least that's how much the military calculated the cost of just flying an F16 for just one hr. There are a limited number of two seat F16's in the fleet anyway and they don't hold as much fuel because of the longer cockpit. Not to mention that most of the equipment and avionics are top secret and a civilian isn't even allowed near one of those just because of that. Sorry.

Answer 7

I heard Russia has something like that, where you can ride in the back of a jet. Ofcourse it is very expensive.