Could a WW1 fighter pilot fly a F111 (possible spoilers)

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@RickJay

I do not for an instant think a WWI pilot could fly a modern jet. It’s ridiculous.

Or even an F15 pilot fly a Tornado, without at least some instruction. As our resident fighter pilot @LSLGuy once said.

@LSLGuy

I recall in the Olde Dayes sitting in captured Soviet equipment and thinking that there’s no way in hell I could start or fly this thing cold. If somebody else started it I might get it off the ground, but I’d be ejecting rather than landing. Assuming I could figure out how to even do that. It was so foreign it was more like alien